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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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"Prest" Quotes from Famous Books

... William Dane, that sometime was An ironmonger; where each degree He worthily (with praise) did passe. By Wisdom, Truth, and Heed, was he Advanc'd an Alderman to be; Then Sheriffe; that he, with justice prest, And cost, performed with the best. In almes frank, of conscience cleare; In grace with prince, to people glad; His vertuous wife, his faithful peere, MARGARET, this monument hath made; Meaning (through God) that as shee had With him (in house) long lived well; Even so in Tombes ...

— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... made him ready for his rest, Flowers in his hair, and on his breast His little hands together prest. ...

— Poems • Elizabeth Stoddard

... mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On ...

— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett

... there's the monie, beare it straight, And bring thy Master home imediately. Come sister, I am prest downe with conceit: Conceit, my comfort and ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... active and conscious intervention. The strange thing is that he should not have been punished for complicity. Later in the reign of Mary his wife exposed herself to similar peril, and similarly escaped. Foxe in his Acts and Monuments relates that Agnes Prest, before she was brought to the stake in 1557 at Southernhay, had been comforted in Exeter gaol by the visits of 'the wife of Walter Ralegh, a woman of noble wit, and of good and ...

— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing

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