compressure

The Nordic Design prize for wooden furniture made by compressure molding was founded in 1983 with the aim of increasing the interest for this technique.

Newton Coffee Table Wins Nordic Design Prize 2009

Thus the weak would soon be swallowed up; and none could be secure without establishing a general balance of power to make the compressure everywhere nearly equal.

The Social Contract Jean Jacques Rousseau 1947

What profited most was compressure of the extremities with both my hands. '

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

A single tear fell from Gulielmo, notwithstanding the proud compressure of his lips.

The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

A few miles above the junction of the southern and middle forks of the Columbia, two considerable lakes have been formed by the compressure of its waters among the adjoining mountains.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

In this portable machine the little boy is fixed, a bag of sand being laid on his forehead, which by continual gentle compressure, gives the head somewhat the form of a brick from the temples upwards, and by these means they have high and lofty foreheads, sloping off backwards.

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. 1823

If these were spread over the surface of France, instead of close compressure in the court or cabinet, they would corrupt the whole country in two years.

Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819