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Postage

The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.

Postal

Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities.

Postanal

Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.

Postaxial

Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.

Postboy

One who rides post horses; a position; a courier.

Postclavicle

A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle.

Postcommissure

A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure.

Postcornu

The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

Postdate

A date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later than that when it was actually made.

Postea

The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried, after a verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is indorsed on the nisi prius record.

Postentry

A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.

Poster

One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.

Posterior

Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.

Posteriority

The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.

Posteriorly

Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.

Posteriors

The hinder parts, as of an animal's body.

Posterity

The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.

Postern

Back; being behind; private.

Postexilic Postexilian

After the exile; belonging to a period subsequent to the Babylonian captivity or exile (b. c. 597 or about 586-about 537).

Postexist

To exist after; to live subsequently.

Postfact

A fact that occurs after another.

Postfix

To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix.

Postfrontal

Situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the frontal in many animals. A postfrontal bone.

Postfurca

One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect.

Postgeniture

The condition of being born after another in the same family; -- distinguished from primogeniture.

Postglacial

Formed or occurring after the last glacial epoch of the Pleistocene period, or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality. Of, pertaining to, or designating, an epoch after the last Glacial and before the Terrace epoch.

Postglenoid

Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.

Postgraduate

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate. A student who pursues such studies.

Posthaste

With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste; to send posthaste.

Posthouse

A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained.

Posthumous

Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.

Posticous

Posterior. Situated on the outer side of a filament; -- said of an extrorse anther.

Postil

To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate.

Postiler

One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin.

Postilion

One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used.

Postillation

The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.

Postillator

One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.

Postliminiary

Pertaining to, or involving, the right of postliminium.

Postliminy Postliminium

The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy.

Postlude

A voluntary at the end of a service.

Postman

A post or courier; a letter carrier.

Postmark

To mark with a post-office stamp; as, to postmark a letter or parcel.

Postmaster

One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.

Postmaster-general

The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.

Postmeridian

Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.)

Postnatal

After birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.

Postnuptial

Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.

Postoral

Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.

Postorbital

Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. A postorbital bone or scale.

Postpaid

Having the postage prepaid, as a letter.

Postpalatine

Situated behind the palate, or behind the palatine bones.

Postpliocene

Of or pertaining to the period immediately following the Pliocene; Pleistocene. Also used as a noun. See Quaternary.

Postpone

To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely.

Postponement

The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay.

Postposition

The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.

Postpositive

Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter.

Postprandial

Happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as, postprandial speeches.

Postremote

More remote in subsequent time or order.

Postrider

One who rides over a post road to carry the mails.

Postscapula

The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula.

Postscapular

Of or pertaining to the postscapula; infraspinous.

Postscenium

The part of a theater behind the scenes; the back part of the stage of a theater.

Postscript

A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer.

Postscutellum

The hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.

Postsphenoid

Of or pertaining to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.

Posttertiary

Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.

Postulant

One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.

Postulate

To beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate conclusions.

Postulated

Assumed without proof; as, a postulated inference.

Postulation

The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.

Posture

To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.

Posy

A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.

Pot

To tipple; to drink.

Pot-au-feu

A dish of broth, meat, and vegetables prepared by boiling in a pot, -- a dish esp. common among the French.

Pot-bellied

Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot.

Pot-walloper

A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.

Potable

Fit to be drunk; drinkable. A potable liquid; a beverage.

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