Posting (n.) The act of traveling post.
Posting (n.) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger.
Postliminiar (a.) Contrived, done, or existing subsequently.
Postliminiary (a.) Pertaining to, or involving, the right of postliminium.
Postliminium (n.) Alt. of Postliminy
Postliminy (n.) The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy.
Postliminy (n.) The right by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
Postlude (n.) A voluntary at the end of a service.
Postmen (pl. ) of Postman
Postman (n.) A post or courier; a letter carrier.
Postman (n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman.
Postmark (n.) The mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving the place and date of mailing or of arrival.
Postmarked (imp. & p. p.) of Postmark
Postmarking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Postmark
Postmark (v. t.) To mark with a post-office stamp; as, to postmark a letter or parcel.
Postmaster (n.) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.
Postmaster (n.) One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
Postmasters-general (pl. ) of Postmaster-general
Postmaster-general (n.) The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.
Postmastership (n.) The office of postmaster.
Postmeridian (a.) Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.)
Postmeridian (a.) Fig., belonging to the after portion of life; late.
Post-mortem (a.) After death; as, post-mortem rigidity.
Postnares (n. pl.) The posterior nares. See Nares.
Postnatal (a.) After birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.
Postnate (a.) Subsequent.
Post note () A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand.
Postnuptial (a.) Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.
Post-obit () Alt. of Post-obit bond
Post-obit bond () A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations.
Postoblongata (n.) The posterior part of the medulla oblongata.
Postocular (a. & n.) Same as Postorbital.
Post office (n.) See under 4th Post.
Postoral (a.) Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.
Postorbital (a.) Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles.
Postorbital (n.) A postorbital bone or scale.
Postpaid (a.) Having the postage prepaid, as a letter.
Postpalatine (a.) Situated behind the palate, or behind the palatine bones.
Postpliocene (a.) Of or pertaining to the period immediately following the Pliocene; Pleistocene. Also used as a noun. See Quaternary.
Postponed (imp. & p. p.) of Postpone
Postponing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Postpone
Postpone (v. t.) To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely.
Postpone (v. t.) To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance.
Postponement (n.) The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay.
Postponence (n.) The act of postponing, in sense 2.
Postponer (n.) One who postpones.
Postposed (imp. & p. p.) of Postpose
Postposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Postpose
Postpose (v. t.) To postpone.
Postposit (v. t.) To postpone.
Postposition (n.) The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.
Postposition (n.) A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; -- distinguished from preposition.
Postpositional (a.) Of or pertaining to postposition.
Postpositive (a.) Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter.
Postprandial (a.) Happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as, postprandial speeches.
Postremogeniture (n.) The right of the youngest born.
Postremote (a.) More remote in subsequent time or order.
Postrider (n.) One who rides over a post road to carry the mails.
Postscapula (n.) The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula.
Postscapular (a.) Of or pertaining to the postscapula; infraspinous.
Postscenium (n.) The part of a theater behind the scenes; the back part of the stage of a theater.
Postscribe (v. t.) To make a postscript.
Postscript (n.) A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer.
Postscripted (a.) Having a postscript; added in a postscript.
Postscutellum (n.) The hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.
Postsphenoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.
Post-temporal (a.) Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes.
Post-temporal (n.) A post-temporal bone.
Posttertiary (a.) Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.
Post-tragus (n.) A ridge within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals.
Post-tympanic (a.) Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.
Postulant (n.) One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.
Postulate (n.) Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.
Postulate (n.) The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem.
Postulate (a.) Postulated.
Postulated (imp. & p. p.) of Postulate
Postulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Postulate
Postulate (v. t.) To beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate conclusions.
Postulate (v. t.) To take without express consent; to assume.
Postulate (v. t.) To invite earnestly; to solicit.
Postulated (a.) Assumed without proof; as, a postulated inference.
Postulation (n.) The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.
Postulatory (a.) Of the nature of a postulate.
Postulata (pl. ) of Postulatum
Postulatum (n.) A postulate.
Postumous (a.) See Posthumous.
Postural (a.) Of or pertaining to posture.
Posture (n.) The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude.
Posture (n.) Place; position; situation.
Posture (n.) State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs.
Postured (imp. & p. p.) of Posture
Posturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Posture
Posture (v. t.) To place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model.
Posture (v. i.) To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.
Posture (v. i.) Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.
Posturer (n.) One who postures.
Postzygapophyses (pl. ) of Postzygapophysis
Postzygapophysis (n.) A posterior zygapophysis.
Posies (pl. ) of Posy
Posy (n.) A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.