Hard Pressed

facing or experiencing trouble or difficulty as financially hard pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices they were hard pressed to find a substitute on short notice see distressed1...

Pinch

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers between teeth or claws or between the jaws of an instrument to squeeze or compress as between any two hard bodies...

Bois durci

A hard highly polishable composition made of fine sawdust from hard wood as rosewood mixed with blood and pressed...

Innkeeper

Innkeeper, means a person who, for compensation, keeps open a public house for the lodging and entertainment of travellers. A keeper of a boarding house is usually not considered an innkeeper, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 792.Innkeeper, proprietor of a common inn for the accommodation of travelers in general.All persons are deemed innkeepers who keep houses where a traveler is furnished, for profit, with everything which he has occasion for whilst on his way. They are bound to take in all travelers and wayfaring persons, and to entertain them for a reasonable time [see Lamond v. Richard, (1897) 1 QB 541] if they can accommodate them, at a reasonable charge, provided they behave themselves properly; and they have a lien upon the goods of their guests for board and lodging, but may not detain their persons or seize their clothing in actual wear. They are also liable for any loss of or injury to goods, money, and baggage of their guests; and responsible for the acts of their serva...

chipboard

a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin...

Crush

To press or bruise between two hard bodies to squeeze so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts or to force together into a mass as to crush grapes...

hardboard

a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin to form sheets used in construction and various other purposes called also particle board and chipboard...

Lithotypy

The art or process of making a kind of hard stereotype plate by pressing into a mold taken from a page of type or other matter a composition of gum shellac and sand of a fine quality together with a little tar and linseed oil all in a heated state...

Peine forte et dure

Peine forte et dure (the strong and hard pain) [peine (or penance), probably a corrupted abbreviation of prisone, 3 Bl. Com. 325], an old punishment by which a prisoner, indicted for felony, if he refused to plead, was pressed by a heavy weight of iron till he died or answered, 2 Reeves, c. ix., 134; 4 Steph. Com.By the Criminal Law Act, 1827, s. 2, if a prisoner refuse to plead, the Court may order a plea of 'not guilty' to be entered....

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