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One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier. "Posters of the sea and land." Shak.

Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. Shak.

The act of traveling post.

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.

a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.

A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein. Gill rakes. (Anat.) See under 1st Gill.

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.

hich a refracted ray makes with the perpendicular to the surface separating the two media traversed by the ray. -- Conical refraction (Opt.), the refraction of a ray of light into an infinite number of rays, forming a hollow cone. This occurs when a ray of light is passed through crystals of some substances, under cer…

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.

A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.

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.