Crown-post (n.) Same as King-post. |
Ex post facto () Alt. of Ex postfacto |
King-post (n.) A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post. |
Lamp-post (n.) A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc. |
Mail (n.) A spot. |
Mail (n.) A small piece of money |
Mail (n.) Rent |
Mail (n.) A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor. |
Mail (n.) Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering. |
Mail (n.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage. |
Mail (n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc. |
Mail (v. t.) To arm with mail. |
Mail (v. t.) To pinion. |
Mail (n.) A bag |
Mail (n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another |
Mail (n.) That which comes in the mail |
Mail (n.) A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried. |
Mail (v. t.) To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail |
Mail-shell (n.) A chiton. |
Post- () A prefix signifying behind, back, after |
Post (a.) Hired to do what is wrong |
Post (n.) A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else |
Post (n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers |
Post (n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed |
Post (n.) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route |
Post (n.) A military station |
Post (n.) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. |
Post (n.) A messenger who goes from station |
Post (n.) An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another |
Post (n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. |
Post (n.) One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. |
Post (n.) A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument |
Post (n.) A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper. |
Post (v. t.) To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices |
Post (v. t.) To hold up to public blame or reproach |
Post (v. t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. |
Post (v. t.) To assign to a station |
Post (v. t.) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger |
Post (v. t.) To place in the care of the post |
Post (v. t.) To inform |
Post (v. i.) To travel with post horses |
Post (v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. |
Post (adv.) With post horses |
Post-abdomen (n.) That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax |
Postal (a.) Belonging to the post office or mail service |
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 |
Post-disseizin (n.) A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor |
Post-disseizor (n.) A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. |
Post-fine (n.) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed |
Post-mortem (a.) After death |
Underground Railroad Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
mail-order buying catalog buying | buying goods to be shipped through the mail |
autopsy necropsy postmortem post-mortem PM postmortem examination post-mortem examination | an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease |
post | the delivery and collection of letters and packages, it came by the first post, if you hurry you'll catch the post |
post office | a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters |
position post berth office spot billet place situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
mail fraud | use of the mails to defraud someone |
mail call | a call of names of those receiving mail |
chiton coat-of-mail shell sea cradle polyplacophore | primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates |
powder-post termite Cryptotermes brevis | extremely destructive dry-wood termite of warm regions |
post horse post-horse poster | a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers |
beach wagon station wagon wagon estate car beach waggon station waggon waggon | a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat |
body armor body armour suit of armor suit of armour coat of mail cataphract | armor that protects the wearer's whole body |
cable railway funicular funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar railway car railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
chain mail ring mail mail chain armor chain armour ring armor ring armour | (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings |
chuck wagon | a wagon equipped with a cookstove and provisions (for cowboys) |
cog railway rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
command post general headquarters GHQ | military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces |
corner post | a square post supporting a structural member at the corner of a building |
country store general store trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
covered wagon Conestoga wagon Conestoga prairie wagon prairie schooner | a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top, used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the th century |
elevated railway elevated railroad elevated el overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
funny wagon | an ambulance used to transport patients to a mental hospital |
hinging post swinging post | the gatepost on which the gate is hung |
hitching post | a fixed post with a ring to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying |
ice wagon ice-wagon | (formerly) a horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door |
king post | post connecting the crossbeam to the apex of a triangular truss |
line railway line rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive engine locomotive engine railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
mail | a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system |
mailbag mail pouch | pouch used in the shipment of mail |
mailboat mail boat packet packet boat | a boat for carrying mail |
mail car | a railway car in which mail is transported and sorted |
mail slot | a slot (usually in a door) through which mail can be delivered |
mail train | a train that carries mail |
military post post | military installation at which a body of troops is stationed, this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby, there is an officer's club on the post |
milk wagon milkwagon | wagon for delivering milk |
newel post newel | the post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, it supports the handrail |
police van police wagon paddy wagon patrol wagon wagon black Maria | van used by police to transport prisoners |
post | an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position, he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them |
post and lintel | a structure consisting of vertical beams (posts) supporting a horizontal beam (lintel) |
post chaise | closed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels, formerly used to transport passengers and mail |
post exchange PX | a commissary on a United States Army post |
posthole post hole | a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post |
posthole digger post-hole digger | a shovel used to sink postholes |
post horn | wind instrument used by postilions of the th and th centuries |
posthouse post house | an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders |
Post-Office box PO Box POB call box letter box | a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for |
post road | a road over which mail is carried |