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ly signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.

nches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning.

The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

an that in which his lot had been assigned. Southey. He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott.

The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition. Hold! says the Stoic; your assumption's wrong. Dryden.

Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely. All athwart there came A post from Wales loaden with heavy news. Shak.

The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.

One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.

A practicing of attitudes; posture making.

f a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.

A post of security or defense. [Poetic] Into the castle's tower, The only Aventine that now is left him. Beau. & Fl.

The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.

od and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. Milton. My lord's coach conveyed me to Bury, and thence baiting aEvelyn.

In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing.

y as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards. "Bardish impostures." Selden.

A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. [Local, U.S.]

A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.