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The collection of postage stamps of various issues.

ular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament. Jacob set a pillar upon her grave. Gen. xxxv. 20. The place . . . vast and proud, Supported by a hundred pillars stood. D…

A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. Shak.

A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp.

A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.

s occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country. Are you native of this place Shak.

Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; -- said of the centra of the vertebræ of some extinct dinouaurs.

. The species are very numerous, especially in tropical seas. The outer lip has usually a posterior notch or slit.

A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.

ton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.

To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.

tive place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.

See Posture. [Obs.]

(Naut.), a boy formerly employed on war vessels to carry powder; a powder boy. -- Powder post. See Dry rot, under Dry. -- Powder puff. See Puff, n.

precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. Fuller.

ek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop. Apostolic prefect (R. C. Ch.), the head of a mission, not of episcopal rank. Shipley.

To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.

causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.

ive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race. The posts . . . went cut, being hastened and pressed on, by the king's commandment. Esther viii. 14.

Delusion; illusion; trick. [Obs.] The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture. Bp. Warburton.