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16 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sheth \Sheth\, n. The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts -- also called {standard}, or {post}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Totem pole \To"tem pole\ or post \post\ A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic symbols, set up before the house of certain Indian tribes of the northwest coast of North America, esp. Indians of the Koluschan stock. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr LL paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.] 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as a packet of letters. --Shak. 2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. {Packet boat}, {ship}, or {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2. {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day {Packet note} or {post}. See under {Paper}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Post- \Post-\ (p[=o]st). [L. post behind, after cf Skr. pa[,c]c[=a]behind, afterwards.] A prefix signifying behind, back after as postcommissure, postdot postscript. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Post \Post\, a. [F. aposter to place in a post or position, generally for a bad purpose.] Hired to do what is wrong suborned. [Obs.] --Sir E. Sandys. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Post \Post\, n. [AS., fr L. postis, akin to ponere positum to place See {Position}, and cf 4th {Post}.] 1. 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. 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 Azza, post and massy bar. --Milton. Unto his order he was a noble post --Chaucer. Note: Post in the sense of an upright timber or strut, is used in composition, in such words as king-post, queen-post, crown-post, gatepost, etc 2. The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence a score; a debt. [Obs.] When God sends coin I will discharge your post --S. Rowlands. {From pillar to post}. See under {Pillar}. {Knight of the post}. See under {Knight}. {Post hanger} (Mach.), a bearing for a revolving shaft, adapted to be fastened to a post {Post hole}, a hole in the ground to set the foot of a post in {Post mill}, a form of windmill so constructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground, and capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies. {Post and stall} (Coal Mining), a mode of working in which pillars of coal are left to support the roof of the mine. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Post \Post\, n. [F. poste, LL posta station, post (where horses were kept), properly, a fixed or set place fem. fr L. positus placed, p. p. of ponere See {Position}, and cf {Post} a pillar.] 1. The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station. Specifically: a 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 b A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also the troops at such a station. c The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. 2. 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. In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other --Abp. Abbot. I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post --Shak. 3. 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. I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post --Pope. 4. Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. [Obs.] ``In post he came.'' --Shak. 5. One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. [Obs.] He held office of postmaster, or as it was then called post for several years. --Palfrey. 6. A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as the post of duty; the post of danger. The post of honor is a private station. --Addison. 7. A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under {Paper}. {Post and pair}, an old game at cards, in which each player a hand of three cards. --B. Jonson {Post bag}, a mail bag. {Post bill}, a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster. {Post chaise}, or {Post coach}, a carriage usually with four wheels, for the conveyance of travelers who travel post {Post day}, a day on which the mall arrives or departs. {Post hackney}, a hired post horse. --Sir H. Wotton. {Post horn}, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail or by a coachman. {Post horse}, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the post {Post hour}, hour for posting letters. --Dickens. {Post office}. a An office under governmental superintendence, where letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business connected with the mail b The governmental system for forwarding mail matter. {Postoffice order}. See {Money order}, under {Money}. {Post road}, or {Post route}, a road or way over which the mail is carried. {Post town}. a A town in which post horses are kept. b A town in which a post office is established by law. {To ride post}, to ride, as a carrier of dispatches, from place to place hence to ride rapidly, with as little delay as possible. {To travel post}, to travel, as a post does by relays of horses, or by keeping one carriage to which fresh horses are attached at each stopping place From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Post \Post\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posted}; p. pr & vb n. {Posting}.] 1. 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. Note: Formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's office, or in some public place upon which legal notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has not entirely gone of use 2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as to post one for cowardice. On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not at four to meet me --Granville. 3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like 4. To assign to a station; to set to place as to post a sentinel. ``It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, . . . or to get him posted.'' --De Quincey. 5. (Bookkeeping) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger. You have not posted your books these ten years. --Arbuthnot. 6. To place in the care of the post to mail as to post a letter. 7. To inform; to give the news to to make one acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day --Lond. Sat. Rev. {To post off}, to put off to delay. [Obs.] ``Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?'' --Baxter. {To post over}, to hurry over [Obs.] --Fuller. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Post \Post\, v. i. [Cf. OF poster. See 4th {Post}.] 1. To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste. ``Post seedily to my lord your husband.'' --Shak. And post o'er land and ocean without rest. --Milton. 2. (Man.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Post \Post\, adv With post horses; hence in haste; as to travel post From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: post adj : (prefix) coming after "`post' is a prefix in `postmillenial' and `postgraduate'" n 1: the position where something or someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand: "a sentry station" [syn: {station}] 2: the place at which a body of troops is stationed [syn: {military post}] 3: a job in an organization or hierarchy; "he ocupied a post in the treasury" [syn: {position}, {berth}, {slot}, {office}, {spot}, {place}, {situation}] 4: a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position 5: a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start of a race track) [syn: {stake}] 6: the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office [syn: {mail}, {postal service}] v 1: affix in a public place or for public notice; "post a warning" 2: publicize with or as it with a poster; "I'll post the news on the bulletin board" 3: assign to a post put into a post "The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu" 4: assign to a station [syn: {station}, {base}, {send}, {place}] 5: for example, of records, in sports 6: enter on a public list 7: mark with a stake; "stake out the path" [syn: {stake}] 8: put up "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump" [syn: {put up}] 9: cause to be directed or transmitted to another place "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written" [syn: {mail}, {send}] 10: mark or expose as infamous; "She was branded a loose woman" [syn: {brand}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Post OR Zip code(s): 97752 Post TX (city, FIPS 59012) Location: 33.19087 N, 101.38131 W Population (1990): 3768 (1547 housing units) Area: 9.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79356 From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: post v. To send a message to a {mailing list} or {newsgroup}. Distinguished in context from `mail'; one might ask for example: "Are you going to post the patch or mail it to known users?" From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: postTo send a message to a {mailing list} or {newsgroup}. Usually implies that the message is sent indiscriminately to multiple users, in contrast to mail" which implies one or more deliberately selected individual recipients. You should only post a message if you think it will be of interest to a significant proportion of the readers of the group or list, otherwise you should use private {electronic mail} instead. See {netiquette}. [{Jargon File}] (1997-12-04) From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Post (1.) A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of letters, etc (2 Chr. 30:6; Esther 3:13, 15; 8:10, 14; Job 9:25; Jer. 51:31). Such messengers were used from very early times. Those employed by the Hebrew kings had a military character (1 Sam. 22:17; 2 Kings 10:25, "guard," marg. "runners"). The modern system of postal communication was first established by Louis XI of France in A.D. 1464. (2.) This word sometimes also is used for lintel or threshold (Isa. 6:4). From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: POST Power-On Self-Test
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