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noun

Prest n.

Ready money; a loan of money. (Obs.) "Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks."

(Law) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.

verb

Prest v. t. To give as a loan; to lend. (Obs.) "Sums of money... prested out in loan."

Prest v. Imp. & p. p. of Press.

adjective

Prest adj.

Ready; prompt; prepared. (Obs.) "All prest to such battle he was."

Neat; tidy; proper. (Obs.)

Prest money, money formerly paid to men when they enlisted into the British service; so called because it bound those that received it to be ready for service when called upon.

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... Mullet hath no peer; For, if the fisher hath surpris'd her pheer As mad with wo, to shore she followeth Prest to consort him, ...

— The Complete Angler • Izaak Walton

... May 18, 1882, the lamp was lighted by the Duke of Edinburgh, the Master of Trinity House at the time, the enterprise having occupied only four years. Some idea may thus be obtained of the energy with which the labor was prest forward, once the most ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors - Vol. II Great Britain And Ireland, Part Two • Francis W. Halsey

... find The amorous thefts of Jove?) the exile shuns His father's anger, and paternal soil. A suppliant bends before Apollo's shrine, To ask his aid;—what region he should chuse To fix his habitation. Phoebus thus;— "A cow, whose neck the yoke has never prest, "Strange to the crooked plough, shall meet thy steps, "Lone in the desert fields: the way she leads "Chuse thou,—rand where upon the grass she rests, "Erect thy walls;—Boeotia call the place." Scarce had the cave Castalian Cadmus ...

— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid

... fiction, and thine infant tongue Lisp'd with delight the godlike deeds of Greece And rising Rome; therefore they deem'd forsooth That thou shouldst tread PREFERMENT'S pleasant path. Ill-judging ones! they let thy little feet Stray in the pleasant paths of POESY, And when thou shouldst have prest amid the crowd There didst thou love to linger out the day Loitering beneath the laurels barren shade. SPIRIT of SPENSER! was the wanderer wrong? This little picture was for ornament Design'd, to shine amid the motley mob Of ...

— Poems • Robert Southey

... unequivocal testimony of her love, prest her to his bosom, and hastened to explain to her that the sole object of his seeking an interview with her that evening, was to make known his affection; that his silence and reserve were owing to the deep interest he felt in the ...

— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames

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