Impress

n. pl. Impresses ().
  1. The act of impressing or making.
  2. A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.
  3. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
  4. A device. See Impresa.
  5. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
    6. Impress gang ,
    a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang.
    Impress money ,
    a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed.