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.

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

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.

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.

One who, or that which, potches.

An apothecary.

especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry.

Molybdenum sulphide.

Potency; capacity.

The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence.

A prince; a potentate.

Sovereignty.

One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.

Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.

The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.

With power; potently.

To render active or potent.

An instrument for measuring or comparing electrial potentials or electro-motive forces.

To render the latent power of (anything) available.

With great force or energy; powerfully; efficaciously.

The quality or state of being potent; powerfulness; potency; efficacy.

A chief ruler; a potentate. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Authoritative.

A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.

An apothecary.

See Poteen.

Whisky; especially whisky distilled in a small way privately or illicitly by the Irish peasantry.

To harass and perplex; to worry.

A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.

An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.

An alehouse.

A vase with a separate cover, the body usually rounded or polygonal in plan with nearly vertical sides, a neck of smaller size, and a rounded shoulder.

The art or process of coating the inside of glass vessels with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the appearance of painted ware.

To drug.

Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and public ceremonies accompany it.

The lid or cover of a pot.

Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal.

A pot companion.

A large South American goatsucker (Nyctibius grandis).

Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also kangaroo rat.

A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.

A medley or mixture. A ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together. A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room. A piece of music made up of different airs strung together; a medley. A literary production composed of parts brought together without order or bond of connection.

A potsherd.

A piece or fragment of a broken pot.

A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.