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Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry. [U.S.]

which ought to be last; inverted in order. [Obs.] The method I take may be censured as preposterous, because I thus treat last of the antediluvian earth, which was first in the order of nature. Woodward.

See Prepositor.

One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.

In fencing, a return thrust after a parry.

The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and the attachments for operating it at the other.

Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.

A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.

A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.

The part of a toolrest in which a cutting tool is clamped.

A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic symbols, set up before the house of certain Indian tribes of the northwest coast of North America, esp. Indians of the Koluschan stock.

h infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.

w condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. The Roman.. accumbent posture in eating. Arbuthnot.

The large posterior sucker of the leeches.

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needfu…

Adjournment; postponement. [R.] "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.