An hour later he woke up, quite unaware of the fact that Norry had changed the cold compress three times.
Then, still saying nothing, Norry put a cold compress on Hugh's hot forehead.
Sign Land, then with L hands make a horizontal circle; hold left hand in pose, sign Water with right hand; then compress it and draw it point down around the circle just made.
Compress the right hand, bend it much at the wrist, hold it so the back is forward and down, fingers level and pointing back; lay it on the right side under the ribs, draw it to the middle of the body following under side of ribs.
These rolls compress the boards still further and impart a polished surface.
The wet sheet then passes between the couch rolls which compress the pulp, squeezing out more water, and then through press rolls, which finally give a firm adherent sheet of pulp containing 70 per cent.
As soon as a sufficient number of wet boards has been obtained they are submitted to pressure in order to remove the excess of water and at the same time compress the material into dense heavy boards.
From time to time one or the other laid his hand over the heart of the sufferer, or listened to her breathing, or opened his case of medicaments, and moistened the compress on her wounded breast with a white ointment.
As a remedy, I should propose that you gird a handkerchief tight round your body so as to compress the stomach, and make frequent application of my bottle of schnapps, which you will find always at your service.
But his diffuseness becomes generally feeble and tedious; the attention fails in the schoolboy stories of Thebes and Troy; and he had not the judgment to select and compress the prose narratives from which he commonly derived his subject.
Montucla has charged Vitello with having done no more than compress and arrange a work on the same subject by Alhazen; which Andrès, always partial to the Arabian writers, has not failed to repeat.
He is able to compress and throttle, and more than once he has so assaulted me and driven my soul into a corner, that I felt as if the next moment it must leave my body.
Often she watches with seemingly pious care the dying hours of a relative, and seizes the occasion to bite his lips, to compress his windpipe, and whisper in his expiring organ some message to the infernal shades.
In preparing the piece of wood referred to, it should not in the fitting be driven or even forced in and out to try the fit, for the wood will compress and the marks mislead as to the actual fit.
The outside corner should not receive any blows at its apex; and as it will stretch on the outside and compress on the inside, the forging to bring the corner up square should be done after the welding.
The tapping holes may in this case be made of larger diameter than the diameter of the end of the tap thread, because the metal in the hole will compress into the tap thread, and so form a full thread.
In long eccentric rods the variation is of course minute; but still it exists, and must exist, since it is impossible to tell exactly how much the rubber will compress in making the joint.
In woodwork the pressure of the nut is apt to compress the wood, causing the bolt head and nut to sink into the wood, and to obviate this, anchor plates are used to increase the area receiving the pressure; thus in Fig.
If it is in any degree larger, it must compress the piece itself or stretch the material that is round it.
A, the tendency is to stretch and crack it, especially in the case of small pulleys, whereas if the grain side were next to the pulley the tendency would be to compress it, and therefore, rather to prevent either cracking or tearing.
Direct the assistant to compress the vein at the root of the ear.
Compress the teat between the finger and thumb (Fig.
Compress the india-rubber teat, thrust the point of the pipette into the secretion; now relax the pressure on the teat and allow the pipette to fill.
It is a custom "to compress with their hands the occiput of the new-born child, in order to render it flat.
Both the Sahaptin and Wallawallas compress the head, but less than the tribes on the coast.
He had to compress untold centuries of development into nine months before he was human enough to break loose as an independent being.
The very children see it so plainly that they compressits history into a two line epic: Old Daddy Long Legs wouldn't say his prayers: Take him by the hind legs and throw him downstairs.
To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.
It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
We will endeavor to compress into a few words the more diffuse narrative of the Recluse, confining ourselves to the substance.
Voice vibrations compress G G, and allow current to pass more freely from D to C.
Early gas-engines did not compress the charge before ignition.
As Henley turned away to attend to his consignment of cotton in the office of the compress he bit his lip and frowned darkly.
He was at the cotton-compress making arrangements to have a quantity of cotton prepared for shipment, when he met one of Long's clerks.
In cuts of the lips, compress the lips between the thumb and finger nearer the angle of the mouth than the cut itself.
In scalp wounds, make direct pressure against the bones of the skull with the fingers, or, better, by means of a compress or bandage.
You must understand a cold compress or pack, otherwise you are likely to increase the malady and hasten your death.
It will often compress into an act of half-an-hour more events than would probably happen in real life in a similar space of time, but not such a train of occurrences as to transcend the limits of possibility.
It would be absurd to make one-third of the play merely introductory, and to compress the whole action into the remaining two-thirds.
Lay over the navel a compress of absorbent cotton, unless the child is over four weeks old, and over this the band, which should be unhemmed, and wide enough to extend from the hip to the armpit.
Her head was cleaned up, but her condition would not permit of any other treatment than a corrosive-sublimate compress and a bandage of Scultetus.
Three silver sutures were passed through the skin, and a firm compress applied.
After several turns the bandage is reversed so as tocompress the foot longitudinally.
A large compress soaked in warm olive oil was then placed over the scalp, covered with oiled silk and with a recurrent bandage.
The edges of the wound were cleansed, stitched, and a compress and bandage applied.
This aperture was about 2 1/2 inches in circumference, and through it food and drink constantly extruded unless prevented by a tent-compress and bandage.
She saw it harden, saw the lips compress themselves, as he turned with the glass in his hand and approached her chair.
Had not her eyes been averted from his face she must have seen his lips compress themselves at her words.
They contain seven very large peas, each of which is half an inch long, nearly the same broad; and, although they are not so closely packed as to compress each other, they fill the pods well.
Some of the Indians of America and Asia, in order to enlarge the countenance, compress the heads of their children between two planks, others flatten them from the crown only, and others exert every effort to render them round.
The menstrual discharge happens at the same time; and all the parts being still in a state of growth, swell by an increase of blood, and mutually compresseach other.
One of de boys works at de cotton oil mill and two works at de compress right here in Corsicana and one works at de beer place in Dallas.
He stayed with his old master four years after he was freed, then married and settled in Tyler, Texas, where he worked for the compress 30 years.
You compress all the blood out of your subject when you make it conform to a studied style, instead of letting your style form itself out of the necessity for expression.
As they drove up to the International Bank where Bob had asked the compress company to send all the bills against the Chandler cotton, another machine was just driving away and a woman was entering the bank.
I put up the compress receipts for the debts," said Bob to Imogene.
I have further orders from the governor to deliver the cotton to the compress on the American side and sell it in the open market.
If you would lend them six cents a pound on their compress receipts that would put most of them in the clear, and enable them to hold on a few months for a possible rise in price.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
