Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-PRESS'OR
DE-PRESS'OR, n.
- He that presses down; an oppressor.
- In anatomy, a muscle that depresses or draws down the part to which it is attached; as, the depressor of the lower jaw, or of the eyeball. It is called also depriment or deprimens.
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