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Post |
Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. |
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Post |
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. |
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Post |
The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. |
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Post |
The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station. |
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Post |
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. |
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Post- |
A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript. |
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Post-abdomen |
That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen. |
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Post-captain |
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; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse. |
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Post-disseizin |
A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished. |
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Post-disseizor |
A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. |
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Post-fine |
A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's silver. |
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Post-mortem |
After death; as, post-mortem rigidity. |
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Post note |
A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. |
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Post-obit |
Alt. of Post-obit bond |
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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. |
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Post office |
See under 4th Post. |
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Post-temporal |
Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. |
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Post-temporal |
A post-temporal bone. |
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Post-tragus |
A ridge within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals. |
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Post-tympanic |
Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus. |
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Oueen-post |
One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post. |
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Tool-post |
Alt. of Tool-stock |
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Crown-post |
Same as King-post. |
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Ex post facto |
Alt. of Ex postfacto |
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King-post |
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. |
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