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One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.

A Laplander's traveling sledge. See Sledge.

r the arterial system, and gradually disappearing in the smaller branches. the pulse wave travels over the arterial system at the rate of about 29.5 feet in a second. H. N. Martin. -- To feel one's pulse. (a) To ascertain, by the sense of feeling, the condition of the arterial pulse. (b) Hence, to sound one's opinion;…

ct; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers. -- To put up a job, to arrange a plot. [Slang]

de dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their traveling habits. Addison.

piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels continuously in one direction in a circular path. -- Reciprocating motion (Mech.), motion alternately backward and forward, or up and down, as of a piston rod.

d for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet. An inn, the free rendezvous of all travelers. Sir W. Scott.

To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.

ide for a fault; to consure formally. Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for traveling into Egypt without his permission. Arbuthnot.

t, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode. "Halfway houses and travelers' rests." J. H. Newman. In dust our final rest, and native home. Milton. Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you. Deut. xii. 9.

hak. In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me. De Quincey.

Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler. [Eng.]

Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. "One riding apparitor." Ayliffe.

e may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.

ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.

Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.

A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads. A sound, swift, well-fed hunter and roadster. Thackeray.

A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages. Shak.

A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.] "A route of ratones [rats]." Piers Plowman. "A great solemn route." Chaucer. And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. Chaucer. A rout of people there assembled were. Spenser.

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march. Wide through the furzy field their route they take. Gay.