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An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars. [Obs.] Wyclif.

ers; hence, a score; a debt. [Obs.] When God sends coin I will discharge your post. S. Rowlands. From pillar to post. See under Pillar. -- Knight of the post. See under Knight. -- Post hanger (Mach.), a bearing for a revolving shaft, adapted to be fastened to a post. -- Post hole, a hole in the ground to set the foo…

A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished. Burrill. Tomlins.

A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone.

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

A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's silver.

A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.

army or navy; a great host. Spenser. Never such a power . . . Was levied in the body of a land. Shak.

urch they are taught to love God; after church they are practiced to love their neighbor. Landor.

An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains. From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the northland. Longfel…

, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.

before the time; as, a precipitate measure. "The rapidity of our too precipitate course." Landor.

Consisting of land or farms; landed; as, predial estate; that is, real estate. Ayliffe.

ic or tidal wave is best marked in a hard pulse, i. e., where the blood pressure is high. Landois & Stirling.

To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preëmption.

The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants. Abbott.

One who holds a prior to purchase certain public land. Abbott.

One who preëmpts; esp., one who preëmpts public land.

e beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.

The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.