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rd to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude. Atalanta, the posture of whose limbs was so lively expressed . . . one would have sworn the very picture had run. Sir P. Sidney. In most strange postures We have seen him set himself. Shak. The posture of a poetic figure is a description of his…

One who postures.

Manure; compost. [Obs.] Shak.

Exposure. [Obs.] Shak.

er; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. Johnson.

Done by imposture. [Obs.]

Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.

w condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. The Roman.. accumbent posture in eating. Arbuthnot.

, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages. There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.

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

One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.

A practicing of attitudes; posture making.

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

of, or like, a buffoon. "Buffoon stories." Macaulay. To divert the audience with buffoon postures and antic dances. Melmoth.

The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.

A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.