Definition of "prease"

prease

noun
1. Obsolete form of press.
  Quotations
  He […] turn'd abacke, and to retyre him hasted Through the thick prease, there thinking him to hyde
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
verb
third-person singular simple present preases, present participle preasing, simple past and past participle preased
1. Obsolete form of press.
  Quotations
  That it the Posterne did from closing stay : The while the Prince hard preased in betweene
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. Obsolete form of praise.