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POST n. 23 definitions
especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses. Ex. xii. 7. Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore, The gates of…
POST NOTE n.
A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. Burrill.
POST OFFICE n.
See under 4th Post.
POST- n.
A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript.
POST-ABDOMEN n.
That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.
POST-CAPTAIN n.
A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fall…
POST-DISSEIZIN n.
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.
POST-DISSEIZOR n.
A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone.
POST-FINE n.
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.
POST-IMPRESSIONISM n.
aturalistic character of impressionism and neo- impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impressionism is used to denote the effort at self-expression, rather than representation, shown in the work of Cézanne, Matisse, etc.; but it is more broadly used to include cubism, the theory or practice of a movement in bo…
POST-MORTEM a.
After death; as, post-mortem rigidity. Post-mortem examination (Med.), an examination of the body made after the death of the patient; an autopsy.
POST-OBIT; POST-OBIT BOND n. 2 definitions
A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. Bouvier.
POST-TEMPORAL a. 2 definitions
A post-temporal bone.
POST-TRAGUS n.
A ridge within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals.
POST-TYMPANIC a.
Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.
POSTABLE a.
Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. [Obs.] W. Montagu.
POSTACT n.
An act done afterward.
POSTAGE n.
hed by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post. Postage stamp, a government stamp required to be put upon articles sent by mail in payment of the postage, esp. an adhesive stamp issued and sold for that purpose.
POSTAL a.
Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities. Postal card, or Post card, a card sold by the government for transmission through the mails, at a lower rate of postage than a sealed letter. The message is written on one side of the card, and the direction on the other. -- Pos…
POSTANAL a.
Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.
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