Definition of Prest

1. a. Ready; prompt; prepared.

2. n. Ready money; a loan of money.

3. v. t. To give as a loan; to lend.

Definition of Prest

1. Verb. (archaic) (past of press) ¹

2. Noun. (rare) A payment of wages in advance ¹

3. Noun. A loan or advance (of money) ¹

4. Noun. A tax or duty ¹

5. Noun. (obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prest

1. a loan [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prest

pressurised
pressurises
pressurising
pressurizable
pressurization
pressurizations
pressurize
pressurized
pressurized water reactor
pressurizer
pressurizers
pressurizes
pressurizing
presswork
pressworks
prest (current term)
prestable
prestained
prestamp
prestamped
prestamping
prestamps
prestart
prestarts
prested
prestellar
prester
presterilize
presterilized
presterilizes

Literary usage of Prest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"The prest-O-Lite Company appealed from the decree, because the court adjudged that the' filling, selling, and exchanging by the defendants of the ..."

2. The Metric Fallacy: An Investigation of the Claims Made for the Metric ...by Frederick Arthur Halsey, Samuel Sherman Dale by Frederick Arthur Halsey, Samuel Sherman Dale (1920)
"Past prest. The National Association of Manufacturers HENRY M. LELAND ... American Bureau of Shipping Past prest. Soc. of Naval Architects and Marine ..."

3. The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Text with Illustrative Notes by Geoffrey Chaucer (1851)
"Then spak our ost with rude speche and bold, And said unto the nonnes prest anoon, " Com ner, thou prest, com ner, ... THE NONNE prest HIS TALE. ..."

4. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1890)
"RR co., L. Stanford prest, CF Crocker vice-prest, NT Smith treac., and JL Willcutt sec.; City RR co., CF Crocker prest, T. Hopkins vice-prest, ..."

5. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"S. A Rosebud by my \ Her sweet balmy lip when 'tis prest : S. A down winding Nith \ Or haply, prest with cares and woes, Man was made to Mourn. ..."

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