Post , adv. With
post horses; hence, in haste; as,
to travel post.
Post , v. i. [Cf. OF. poster. See 4th Post.]
1. To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in
haste. "Post
seedily to my lord your husband." Shak.
And post o'er land and ocean without rest.
Milton. 2. (Man.)
To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the
horse, esp. in trotting.
[Eng.]
Post (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Posted;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Posting.]
1. To attach to
a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a
notice; to post playbills.
&fist; Formerly, a large post
was erected before the sheriff's
office, or in some public place, upon which legal notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has not entirely gone of use.
2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.
On pain of being posted to your sorrow
Fail not, at four,
to meet me.
Granville.
3. To enter (a name)
on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
4. To assign to
a station; to set; to place; as, to
post a sentinel. "It might be to obtain a ship
for a lieutenant, . . . or to get him
posted." De Quincey.
5. (Bookkeeping)
To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to
post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.
You have not
posted your books these
ten years.
Arbuthnot.
6. To place in the
care of the
post; to mail; as, to
post a letter.
7. To inform; to
give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a
subject; -- often with up.
Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day.
Lond. Sat. Rev. To post off, to put off; to delay. [Obs.] "Why did I, venturously, post off so
great a business?" Baxter. --
To post over, to hurry over. [Obs.] Fuller.
Post , n. [F. poste, LL. posta station, post (where horses were kept), properly, a fixed or set place, fem. fr. L. positus placed, p. p. of ponere. See Position, and cf. Post a pillar.]
1.
The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station. Specifically: (a) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers
on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post. (b)
A military station; the place at which a soldier or a
body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station. (c)
The piece of ground to
which a sentinel's walk is limited.
2. A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is
employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to
another; a letter carrier; a postman.
In certain
places there be always fresh posts, to carry that
further which is brought unto them by the other.
Abp. Abbot. I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
Receiving them from such a worthless post.
Shak.
3. An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any
country for carrying and distributing letters and
parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the
mail is transported.
I send you the fair copy
of the poem
on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the
common post.
Pope. 4. Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. [Obs.] "In post he came." Shak.
5. One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. [Obs.]
He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.
Palfrey. 6. A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
The post of honor is a private station.
Addison.
7. A size
of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.
Post and pair, an old game at
cards, in which each player a
hand of three cards. B. Jonson.
-- Post bag, a mail bag.
-- Post bill, a bill of letters
mailed by a
postmaster. -- Post chaise, or Post coach, a carriage usually with four wheels, for the conveyance of travelers who travel post. -- Post day, a day on which the mall arrives or departs. --
Post hackney, a hired post horse. Sir H. Wotton. -- Post horn, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman. -- Post horse, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the post. -- Post hour, hour for posting letters. Dickens. -- Post office. (a)
An office under governmental superintendence, where
letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business connected with the mail. (b) The governmental system for forwarding mail matter. -- Postoffice order.
See Money order, under Money. -- Post road, or Post route, a road or way over which the mail is carried. -- Post town. (a) A town in which
post horses are kept. (b) A town in which a post
office is established by law. -- To ride post, to ride, as a carrier of dispatches, from place to
place; hence, to ride rapidly, with as little delay as possible. -- To travel post, to travel, as
a post does,
by relays of horses, or by keeping
one carriage to which fresh horses are attached at each stopping place.
Post , n. [AS., fr. L. postis, akin to ponere,
positum, to place. See Position, and cf. 4th Post.]
1. A piece
of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright
position, especially
when intended as a stay or support to
something else; a pillar; as,
a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house.
They shall take of the blood, and strike it on
the two side posts and on the upper
doorpost of the houses.
Ex. xii.
7. Then by
main force pulled up, and on his
shoulders bore,
The gates of Azza, post and massy bar.
Milton. Unto his order he was
a noble post.
Chaucer. &fist; Post, in the sense
of an upright timber or strut, is
used in composition, in such words as
king-post, queen- post, crown-post, gatepost, etc.
2. The doorpost of a
victualer's shop or inn, on which were
chalked the scores of customers;
hence, a score; a debt. [Obs.]
When God sends coin
I will
discharge your post.
S.
Rowlands. From pillar to post. See under Pillar. --
Knight of the post. See under Knight. -- Post hanger (Mach.), a bearing for a
revolving shaft, adapted
to be fastened to a post.
-- Post hole, a hole in the ground to
set the foot of a post in. -- Post mill, a form of windmill so constructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical
axis firmly fastened to the ground, and capable of being turned as the direction of the wind
varies. -- Post and stall (Coal Mining), a mode of working in which pillars of coal are left
to support the roof of the mine.
Post , a. [F. aposter to place in a post or position, generally for a bad purpose.]
Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.
Post- (pōst). [L.
post behind, after; cf. Skr. paçcābehind, afterwards.]
A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript.
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