Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-PRESS', v.t. [Sp. expresar; Port. expressar; L. expressum, exprimo; ex and premo, to press. See Press.]

1. To press or squeeze out; to force out by pressure; as, to express the juice of grapes or of apples.
2. To utter; to declare in words; to speak. He expressed his ideas or his meaning with precision. His views were expressed in very intelligible terms.
3. To write or engrave; to represent in written words or language. The covenants in the deed are well expressed.
4. To represent; to exhibit by copy or resemblance. So kids and whelps their sires and dams express. Dryden.
5. To represent or show by imitation or the imitative arts; to form a likeness; as in painting or sculpture. Each skillful artist shall express thy form. Smith.
6. To show or make known; to indicate. A downcast eye or look may express humility, shame or guilt.
7. To denote; to designate. Moses and Aaron took these men, who are expressed by their names. Num. i.
8. To extort; to elicit. [Little used.] B. Jonson.