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Post
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
(2):
(a.) Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
(3):
(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; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house.
(4):
(n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
(5):
(n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.
(6):
(n.) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post.
(7):
(n.) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
(8):
(n.) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited.
(9):
(n.) A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman.
(10):
(n.) An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported.
(11):
(v. i.) To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
(12):
(n.) One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.
(13):
(n.) A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
(14):
(n.) A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.
(15):
(adv.) With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
(16):
(v. t.) To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills.
(17):
(v. t.) To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.
(18):
(v. t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
(19):
(v. t.) To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.
(20):
(v. t.) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.
(21):
(v. t.) To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
(22):
(v. t.) To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; - often with up.
(23):
(v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Post'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/post.html. 1828.
