Post (v. i.) To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
Post (v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.
Post (adv.) With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
Post-abdomen (n.) That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.
Postable (a.) Capable of being carried by, or as by, post.
Postact (n.) An act done afterward.
Postage (n.) The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.
Postal (a.) Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities.
Postanal (a.) Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.
Postaxial (a.) Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.
Postboy (n.) One who rides post horses; a position; a courier.
Postboy (n.) A boy who carries letters from the post.
Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse.
Postcavae (pl. ) of Postcava
Postcava (n.) The inferior vena cava.
Postclavicle (n.) A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle.
Postcommissure (n.) A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure.
Postcomminion (n.) The concluding portion of the communion service.
Postcomminion (n.) A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions.
Postcornua (pl. ) of Postcornu
Postcornu (n.) The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
Postdated (imp. & p. p.) of Postdate
Postdating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Postdate
Postdate (v. t.) To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.
Postdate (v. t.) To affix a date to after the event.
Postdate (a.) Made or done after the date assigned.
Postdate (n.) A date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later than that when it was actually made.
Postdiluvial (a.) Alt. of Postdiluvian
Postdiluvian (a.) Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.
Postdiluvian (n.) One who lived after the flood.
Post-disseizin (n.) A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished.
Post-disseizor (n.) A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor.
Postea (n.) The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried, after a verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is indorsed on the nisi prius record.
Postel (n.) Apostle.
Postencephalon (n.) The metencephalon.
Postentry (n.) A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.
Postentry (n.) An additional or subsequent entry.
Poster (n.) A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places.
Poster (n.) One who posts bills; a billposter.
Poster (n.) One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.
Poster (n.) A post horse.
Posterior (a.) Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.
Posterior (a.) Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior.
Posterior (a.) At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.
Posterior (a.) On the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower.
Posteriority (n.) The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
Posteriorly (adv.) Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
Posteriors (n. pl.) The hinder parts, as of an animal's body.
Posterity (n.) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.
Posterity (n.) Succeeding generations; future times.
Postern (n.) Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.
Postern (n.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
Postern (a.) Back; being behind; private.
Postero () - (/). A combining form meaning posterior, back; as, postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated back and at the side.
Postexist (v. i.) To exist after; to live subsequently.
Postexistence (n.) Subsequent existence.
Postexistent (a.) Existing or living after.
Postfact (a.) Relating to a fact that occurs after another.
Postfact (n.) A fact that occurs after another.
Postfactum (n.) Same as Postfact.
Post-fine (n.) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's silver.
Postfixes (pl. ) of Postfix
Postfix (n.) A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix.
Postfix (v. t.) To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix.
Postfrontal (a.) Situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the frontal in many animals.
Postfrontal (n.) A postfrontal bone.
Postfurcae (pl. ) of Postfurca
Postfurca (n.) One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect.
Postgeniture (n.) The condition of being born after another in the same family; -- distinguished from primogeniture.
Postglenoid (a.) Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.
Posthaste (n.) Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier.
Posthaste (adv.) With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste; to send posthaste.
Posthetomy (n.) Circumcision.
Posthouse (n.) A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained.
Posthouse (n.) A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
Posthume (a.) Alt. of Posthumed
Posthumed (a.) Posthumous.
Posthumous (a.) Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.
Posthumous (a.) Published after the death of the author; as, posthumous works; a posthumous edition.
Posthumous (a.) Being or continuing after one's death; as, a posthumous reputation.
Posthumously (adv.) In a posthumous manner; after one's decease.
Postic (a.) Backward.
Postticous (a.) Posterior.
Postticous (a.) Situated on the outer side of a filament; -- said of an extrorse anther.
Postil (n.) Originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible, so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment.
Postil (n.) A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne.
Postil (v. t.) To write marginal or explanatory notes on; to gloss.
Postiled (imp. & p. p.) of Postil
Postilled () of Postil
Postiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Postil
Postilling () of Postil
Postil (v. i.) To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate.
Postiler (n.) One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin.
Postilion (n.) One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used.
Postillate (v. t.) To explain by marginal notes; to postil.
Postillate (v. i.) To write postils; to comment.
Postillate (v. i.) To preach by expounding Scripture verse by verse, in regular order.
Postillation (n.) The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.
Postillator (n.) One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.
Posttiller (n.) See Postiler.