Benting time
() The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. |
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. |
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 |
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 |
Post note
() A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. |
Post-obit
() Alt. of Post-obit bond |
Post-obit bond
() 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. |
Post office
(n.) See under 4th Post. |
Post-temporal
(a.) Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull |
Post-temporal
(n.) 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. |
Quarter
(n.) One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided |
Quarter
(n.) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. |
Quarter
(n.) The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain |
Quarter
(n.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution |
Quarter
(n.) One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts |
Quarter
(n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp. |
Quarter
(n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin. |
| time | the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
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 |
avocation
by-line
hobby
pursuit sideline
spare-time activity | an auxiliary activity |
| 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 |
time and motion study
time-and-motion study
time-motion study
motion study
time study
work study | an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort |
| waste of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity, the waste of time could prove fatal |
| time exposure | exposure of a film for a relatively long time (more than half a second) |
harvest
harvest time | the season for gathering crops |
haying
haying time | the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder |
| close-quarter fighting | hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters |
respite
recess
break time out | a pause from doing something (as work), we took a -minute break, he took time out to recuperate |
free time
spare time | time that is free from duties or responsibilities |
| quarter | clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent, he surrendered but asked for quarter |
powder-post termite
Cryptotermes brevis | extremely destructive dry-wood termite of warm regions |
| quarter horse | a small powerful horse originally bred for sprinting in quarter-mile races in Virginia |
post horse
post-horse
poster | a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers |
character printer
character-at-a-time printer
serial printer | a printer that prints a single character at a time |
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 |
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 |
| king post | post connecting the crossbeam to the apex of a triangular truss |
line printer
line-at-a-time printer | printer that serves as an output device on a computer, prints a whole line of characters at a time |
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 |
newel post
newel | the post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, it supports the handrail |
ovolo
thumb quarter round | a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse |
page printer
page-at-a-time printer | a printer that prints one page at a time |
| 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 |
| quarter | piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp |
| quarter plate | a photographic plate measuring . inches by . inches |
| queen post | vertical tie post in a roof truss |
| shutting post | the gatepost against which the gate closes |
stern
after part
quarter
poop
tail | the rear part of a ship |
telephone pole
telegraph pole
telegraph post | tall pole supporting telephone wires |
| three-quarter binding | the spine and much of the sides are a different material from the rest of the cover |
| time-ball | a ball that slides down a staff to show a fixed time, especially at an observatory |
time bomb
infernal machine | a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time |
| time capsule | container for preserving historical records to be discovered at some future time |