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the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office; "the mail handles billions of items every day"; "he works for the United States mail service"; "in England they call mail `the post'"

any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered; "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me?"; "she was opening her post"

cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"

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"

enter on a public list

the delivery and collection of letters and packages; "it came by the first post"; "if you hurry you'll catch the 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"

a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track); "a pair of posts marked the goal"; "the corner of the lot was indicated by a stake"

assign to a station

mark with a stake; "stake out the path"

United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914)

United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960)

United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935)

publicize with, or as if with, a poster; "I'll post the news on the bulletin board"

display, as of records in sports games

affix in a public place or for public notice; "post a warning"

ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait

transfer (entries) from one account book to another

assign to a post; put into a post; "The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu"

the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office; "the mail handles billions of items every day"; "he works for the United States mail service"; "in England they call mail `the post'"

any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered; "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me?"; "she was opening her post"

cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"

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"

enter on a public list

the delivery and collection of letters and packages; "it came by the first post"; "if you hurry you'll catch the 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"

a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track); "a pair of posts marked the goal"; "the corner of the lot was indicated by a stake"

for example, of records, in sports

assign to a station

mark with a stake; "stake out the path"

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.

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.

The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.

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.

A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.

The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited.

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.

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.

Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.

A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.

A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.

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.

To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.

To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.

To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.

To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.

To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.

To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up.

To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.

To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.

With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.

A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript.

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.

A piece of timber, etc., set upright, usually to support something else; system of carrying and delivering letters; the mail; place, station, situation, or office; a military station.

To fasten, as a notice, to a wall, etc.; to make known by means of notices fastened to a wall, etc.; to send by mail; in bookkeeping, to transfer an entry or item from journal or day book to ledger; to inform fully.

To travel with speed; as, to post o'er land and sea.

Speedily: post card, a private card, as a picture, which can be sent through the mail by the affixing of a postage stamp.

A prefix to words derived from Latin roots, noting after, behind, or posterior, corresponding to Greek, meta-.

A piece of timber fixed in the ground, generally as a support to something else: a pillar.

To fix on or to a post, that is, in a public place: to expose to public reproach.

A fixed place, as a military station: a fixed place or stage on a road: an office: one who travels by stages, esp. carrying letters, etc.: a public letter carrier: an established system of conveying letters: a size of writing-paper, double that of common note-paper.

To set or station: to put in the post-office: (book-k.) to transfer to the ledger.

To travel with posthorses, or with speed.

With posthorses: with speed.

Piece of timber fixed in the ground; station; office; letter carrier; mail.

To station; put in the mail; enter in the ledger.

to travel with speed.

to travel with speed.

To put up in some public place.

To assign to a post position or place.

To mail.

To transfer (items or accounts) to the ledger.

Poster.

An upright piece of timber or other material used as a support.

A fixed place or station; office; employment.

The mail system; a postman; messenger.

By post-horses; rapidly; as, to travel post.

Behind or after; opposed to ante-; as, postscript.

to travel with speed.

Latin prefix signifying after, behind.

Swiftly; with dispatch. To ride post, to be employed to carry despatches. To travel post, to travel with post-horses.

A piece of timber set upright, usually larger than a stake, and intended to support something.

A fixed place or station; a military station; a stage; an office or employment; a messenger or a carrier of letters; an established system of letter-carrying; the mail; a size of paper twice that of ordinary note-paper.

To fix to a post; to stick up, as a bill; to expose to public reproach.

To station; to forward a letter by the post-office; to carry accounts to the ledger.

A piece of timber placed upright, generally as a support for something else; a station for soldiers; a place or situation; the station of duty; employment; a messenger who carries letters regularly from place to place; a quick or speedy manner of travelling; the mail; a size of printing and writing paper; a miner's or quarryman's term for any compact stratum of sandstone or lime-stone.

To travel with speed, as by relays of horses; to send with speed; to place; to station; to fix; to assign; to advertise by putting a placard on a wall or a post; to place letters in the post-office; in book-keeping, to carry the entries from other books to the ledger.

In haste; hastily.

A common prefix, signifying behind; after; afterwards; subsequent.

n. [Latin] A piece of timber or other solid substance set upright, especially as a support ; a pillar ;-the place at which any thing is stayed or fixed ; a station ; especially, a military station ;-an office or position of service, trust or emolument ;-a messenger who goes from station to station ; a letter-carrier; an express; a postman ;-an established conveyance for letters ; the mail ;-a sort of writing paper.

adv. With post - horses ; with great rapidity.