Impression

1. n. A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like.
2. n. The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.
3. n. That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.
4. n. That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.
5. n. Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.
6. n. An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.
7. n. Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.
8. n. The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
9. n. In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.