·noun Affliction; distress; grievance.
II. Pressure ·add. ·noun Electro-motive force.
III. Pressure ·noun Urgency; as, the pressure of business.
IV. Pressure ·noun Impression; stamp; character impressed.
V. Pressure ·noun The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.
VI. Pressure ·noun A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
VII. Pressure ·noun The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area.