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

Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.

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

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.

Back; being behind; private.

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

To exist after; to live subsequently.

Subsequent existence.

Existing or living after.

A fact that occurs after another.

Same as Postfact.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.

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.

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

Circumcision.

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.

In a posthumous manner; after one's decease.

Backward.

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

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

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

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.

To write postils; to comment.

The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.

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

The act of traveling post.

Contrived, done, or existing subsequently.

Pertaining to, or involving, the right of 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.

A voluntary at the end of a service.

A post or courier; a letter carrier.

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

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

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

The office of postmaster.

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

The posterior nares. See Nares.

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

Subsequent.

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

The posterior part of the medulla oblongata.

Same as Postorbital.

Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.

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

Having the postage prepaid, as a letter.

Situated behind the palate, or behind the palatine bones.

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

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.

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

The act of postponing, in sense 2.

One who postpones.

To postpone.

To postpone.

Of or pertaining to postposition.

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

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

The right of the youngest born.

More remote in subsequent time or order.

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

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

Of or pertaining to the postscapula; infraspinous.

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

To make a 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.

Having a postscript; added in a postscript.

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

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

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

See Postiler.

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

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

Assumed without proof; as, a postulated inference.

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

Of the nature of a postulate.

A postulate.

See Posthumous.

Of or pertaining to posture.

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

One who postures.

A posterior zygapophysis.

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

To tipple; to drink.

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

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

A protuberant belly.

Made confident by drink.

Having the courage given by drink.

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.

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

The quality of being drinkable.

See Pottage.

A porringer.

See Potargo.

The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine.

A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx.

An account or description of rivers; potamology.

A scientific account or discussion of rivers; a treatise on rivers; potamography.

The fresh-water sponges. See Spongilla.

The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.

A kind of sauce or pickle.

The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash. The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash).

Potash.

Potassium oxide. Potassium hydroxide, commonly called caustic potash.

A yellowish brown substance obtained by heating potassium in ammonia.

An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K (Kalium).

The radical KO, derived from, and supposed to exist in, potassium hydroxide and other compounds.

The act of drinking.

A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico. The sweet potato (see below).

A drinker.

Of or pertaining to drinking.

A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living.

A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a public house.

See Poach, to cook.