POSTBOY — POTTED

POSTBOY — POTTED NWAD POSTBOY.1

POSTBOY, n. A boy that rides as post; a courier. NWAD POSTBOY.1

POST-CHAISE, n. [See Chaise.] A carriage with four wheels for the conveyance of travelers. NWAD POST-CHAISE.1

POSTDATE, v.t. [L. post, after, and date, L. datum.] NWAD POSTDATE.1

To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it after the true time of making the contract. NWAD POSTDATE.2

POSTDILUVIAL, POSTDILUVIAN, a. [L. post, after, and diluvium, the deluge.] NWAD POSTDILUVIAL.1

Being or happening posterior to the flood in Noah’s days. NWAD POSTDILUVIAL.2

POSTDILUVIAN, n. A person who lived after the flood, or who has lived since that event. NWAD POSTDILUVIAN.1

POST-DISSEIZIN, n. A subsequent disseizin. A writ of post-disseizin is intended to put in possession a person who has been disseized after a judgment to recover the same lands of the same person, under the statute of Merton. NWAD POST-DISSEIZIN.1

POST-DISSEIZOR, n. A person who disseizes another of lands which he had before recovered of the same person. NWAD POST-DISSEIZOR.1

POSTEA, n. [L.] The record of what is done in a cause subsequent to the joining of issue and awarding of trial. NWAD POSTEA.1

POSTED, pp. Placed; stationed. NWAD POSTED.1

1. Exposed on a post or by public notice. NWAD POSTED.2

2. Carried to a ledger, as accounts. NWAD POSTED.3

POSTER, n. One who posts; also, a courier; one that travels expeditiously. NWAD POSTER.1

POSTERIOR, a. [from L. posterus, from post.] NWAD POSTERIOR.1

1. Later or subsequent in time. NWAD POSTERIOR.2

Hesiod was posterior to Homer. NWAD POSTERIOR.3

2. Later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after. [Unfrequent.] NWAD POSTERIOR.4

POSTERIORITY, n. The state of being later or subsequent; as posteriority of time or of an event; opposed to priority. NWAD POSTERIORITY.1

POSTERIORS, n. plu. The hinder parts of an animal body. NWAD POSTERIORS.1

POSTERITY, n. [L. posteritas, from posterus, from post, after.] NWAD POSTERITY.1

1. Descendants; children, children’s children, etc. indefinitely; the race that proceeds from a progenitor. The whole human race are the posterity of Adam. NWAD POSTERITY.2

2. In a general sense, succeeding generations; opposed to ancestors. NWAD POSTERITY.3

To the unhappy that unjustly bleed, NWAD POSTERITY.4

Heav’n gives posterity t’ avenge the deed. NWAD POSTERITY.5

POSTERN, n. [L. post, behind.] NWAD POSTERN.1

1. Primarily, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate. NWAD POSTERN.2

2. In fortification, a small gate, usually in the angle of the flank of a bastion, or in that of the curtain or near the orillon, descending into the ditch. NWAD POSTERN.3

POSTERN, a. Back; being behind; private. NWAD POSTERN.4

POST-EXISTENCE, n. Subsequent or future existence. NWAD POST-EXISTENCE.1

POST-FINE, n. In English law, a fine due to the king by prerogative, after a licentia concordandi given in a fine of lands and tenements; called also the king’s silver. NWAD POST-FINE.1

POSTFIX, n. [L. post, after, and fix.] In grammar, a letter, syllable or word added to the end of another word; a suffix. NWAD POSTFIX.1

POSTFIX, v.t. To add or annex a letter, syllable or word, to the end of another or principal word. NWAD POSTFIX.2

POSTFIXED, pp. Added to the end of a word. NWAD POSTFIXED.1

POSTFIXING, ppr. Adding to the end of a word. NWAD POSTFIXING.1

POST-HACKNEY, n. [post and hackney.] A hired posthorse. NWAD POST-HACKNEY.1

POST-HASTE, n. Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. NWAD POST-HASTE.1

POST-HASTE, adv. With speed or expedition. He traveled post-haste, that is, by an ellipsis, with post-haste. NWAD POST-HASTE.2

POST-HORSE, n. A horse stationed for the use of couriers. NWAD POST-HORSE.1

POST-HOUSE, n. A house where a post-office is kept for receiving and dispatching letters by public mails; a post-office. NWAD POST-HOUSE.1

[The latter word is now in general use.] NWAD POST-HOUSE.2

POSTHUME, a. Posthumous. [Not used.] NWAD POSTHUME.1

POSTHUMOUS, a. [L. post, after, and humus, earth; humatus, buried.] NWAD POSTHUMOUS.1

1. Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as a posthumous son or daughter. NWAD POSTHUMOUS.2

2. Published after the death of the author; as posthumous works. NWAD POSTHUMOUS.3

3. Being after one’s decease; as a posthumous character. NWAD POSTHUMOUS.4

POSTHUMOUSLY, adv. After one’s decease. NWAD POSTHUMOUSLY.1

POSTIC, a. [L. posticus.] Backward. [Not used.] NWAD POSTIC.1

POSTIL, n. [L. post.] A marginal note; originally, a note in the margin of the Bible, so called because written after the text. NWAD POSTIL.1

POSTIL, v.t. To write marginal notes; to gloss; to illustrate with marginal notes. NWAD POSTIL.2

POSTILER, n. One who writes marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin. NWAD POSTILER.1

POSTILLION, n. postil’yon. One that rides and guides the first pair of horses in a coach or other carriage; also, one that rides one of the horses, when one pair only is used, either in a coach or post-chaise. NWAD POSTILLION.1

POSTING, ppr. Setting up on a post; exposing the name or character to reproach by public advertisement. NWAD POSTING.1

1. Placing; stationing. NWAD POSTING.2

2. Transferring accounts to a ledger. NWAD POSTING.3

POSTLIMINIAR, POSTLIMINIOUS, a. [See Postliminium.] Contrived, done or existing subsequently; as a post-liminious application. NWAD POSTLIMINIAR.1

POSTLIMINIUM, POSTLIMINY, n. [L. post, after, and limen, end, limit.] NWAD POSTLIMINIUM.1

Postliminium, among the Romans, was the return of a person to his own country who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished or taken by an enemy. NWAD POSTLIMINIUM.2

In the modern law of nations, the right of postliminy is that by virtue of which, persons and things taken by an enemy in war, are restored to their former state, when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged. The sovereign of a country is bound to protect the person and the property of his subjects; and a subject who has suffered the loss of his property by the violence of war, on being restored to his country, can claim to be re-established in all his rights, and to recover his property. But this right does not extend, in all cases, to personal effects or movables, on account of the difficulty of ascertaining their identity. NWAD POSTLIMINIUM.3

POSTMAN, n. A post or courier; a letter-carrier. NWAD POSTMAN.1

POSTMARK, n. The mark or stamp of a post-office on a letter. NWAD POSTMARK.1

POSTMASTER, n. The officer who has the superintendence and direction of a post-office. NWAD POSTMASTER.1

Postmaster-general, is the chief officer of the post-office department, whose duty is to make contracts for the conveyance of the public mails and see that they are executed, and who receives the moneys arising from the postage of letters, pays the expenses, keeps the accounts of the office, and superintends the whole department. NWAD POSTMASTER.2

POSTMERIDIAN, a. [L. postmeridianus. See Meridian.] NWAD POSTMERIDIAN.1

Being or belonging to the afternoon; as postmeridian sleep. NWAD POSTMERIDIAN.2

POSTNATE, a. [L. post, after, and natus, born.] Subsequent. [Little used.] NWAD POSTNATE.1

POST-NOTE, n. [post and note.] In commerce, a bank note intended to be transmitted to a distant place by the public mail, and made payable to order. In this it differs from a common bank note, which is payable to the bearer. NWAD POST-NOTE.1

POSTNUPTIAL, a. [post and nuptial.] Being or happening after marriage; as a postnuptial settlement on a wife. NWAD POSTNUPTIAL.1

POST-OFFICE, n. An office or house where letters are received for delivery to the persons to whom they are addressed, or to be transmitted to other places in the public mails; a post-house. NWAD POST-OFFICE.1

POST-PAID, a. Having the postage paid on; as a letter. NWAD POST-PAID.1

POSTPONE, v.t. [L. postpono; post, after, and pono, to put.] NWAD POSTPONE.1

1. To put off; to defer to a future or later time; to delay; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill or question to the afternoon, or to the following day. NWAD POSTPONE.2

2. To set below something else in value or importance. NWAD POSTPONE.3

All other considerations should give way and be postponed to this. NWAD POSTPONE.4

POSTPONED, pp. Delayed; deferred to a future time; set below in value. NWAD POSTPONED.1

POSTPONEMENT, n. The act of deferring to a future time; temporary delay of business. NWAD POSTPONEMENT.1

POSTPONENCE, n. Dislike. [Not in use.] NWAD POSTPONENCE.1

POSTPONING, ppr. Deferring to a future time. NWAD POSTPONING.1

POSTPOSITION, n. [post and position.] The state of being put back or out of the regular place. NWAD POSTPOSITION.1

POSTREMOTE, a. [post and remote.] More remote in subsequent time or order. NWAD POSTREMOTE.1

POSTSCRIPT, n. [L. post, after, and scriptum, written.] NWAD POSTSCRIPT.1

A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; or any addition made to a book or composition after it had been supposed to be finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer. NWAD POSTSCRIPT.2

POST-TOWN, n. A town in which a post-office is established by law. NWAD POST-TOWN.1

1. A town in which post-horses are kept. NWAD POST-TOWN.2

POSTULANT, n. [See Postulate.] One who makes demand. NWAD POSTULANT.1

POSTULATE, n. [L. postulatum, from postulo, to demand, from the root of posco, to ask or demand. The sense is to urge or push.] NWAD POSTULATE.1

A position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident, or too plain to require illustration. NWAD POSTULATE.2

A self-evident problem, answering to axiom, which is a self-evident theorem. NWAD POSTULATE.3

POSTULATE, v.t. [supra.] To beg or assume without proof. [Little used.] NWAD POSTULATE.4

1. To invite; to solicit; to require by entreaty. NWAD POSTULATE.5

2. To assume; to take without positive consent. NWAD POSTULATE.6

The Byzantine emperors appear to have exercised, or at least to have postulated a sort of paramount supremacy over this nation. NWAD POSTULATE.7

POSTULATION, n. [L. postulatio.] The act of supposing without proof; gratuitous assumption. NWAD POSTULATION.1

1. Supplication; intercession; also, suit; cause. NWAD POSTULATION.2

POSTULATORY, a. Assuming without proof. NWAD POSTULATORY.1

1. Assumed without proof. NWAD POSTULATORY.2

POSTULATUM, n. [L.] A postulate, which see. NWAD POSTULATUM.1

POSTURE, n. [L. positura; pono, positus.] NWAD POSTURE.1

1. In painting and sculpture, attitude; the situation of a figure with regard to the eye, and of the several principal members with regard to each other, by which action is expressed. Postures should be accommodated to the character of the figure, and the posture of each member to its office. Postures are natural or artificial. Natural postures are such as our ordinary actions and the occasions of life lead us to exhibit; artificial postures are such as are assumed or learnt for particular purposes, or in particular occupations, as in dancing, fencing, etc. NWAD POSTURE.2

2. Situation; condition; particular state with regard to something else; as the posture of public affairs before or after a war. NWAD POSTURE.3

3. Situation of the body; as an abject posture. NWAD POSTURE.4

4. State; condition. The fort is in a posture of defense. NWAD POSTURE.5

5. The situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or with respect to a particular purpose. NWAD POSTURE.6

He casts NWAD POSTURE.7

His eyes against the moon in most strange postures. NWAD POSTURE.8

The posture of a poetic figure is the description of the heroes in the performance of such or such an action. NWAD POSTURE.9

6. Disposition; frame; as the posture of the soul. NWAD POSTURE.10

POSTURE, v.t. To place in a particular manner; to dispose the parts of a body for a particular purpose. NWAD POSTURE.11

He was raw with posturing himself according to the direction of the chirurgeons. NWAD POSTURE.12

POSTURE-MASTER, n. One that teaches or practices artificial postures of the body. NWAD POSTURE-MASTER.1

POSY, n. s as z. NWAD POSY.1

1. A motto inscribed on a ring, etc. NWAD POSY.2

2. A bunch of flowers. NWAD POSY.3

POT, n. NWAD POT.1

1. A vessel more deep than broad, made of earth, or iron or other metal, used for several domestic purposes; as an iron pot, for boiling meat or vegetables; a pot for holding liquors; a cup, as a pot of ale; an earthen pot for plants, called a flower pot, etc. NWAD POT.2

2. A sort of paper of small sized sheets. NWAD POT.3

To go to pot, to be destroyed, ruined, wasted or expended. [A low phrase.] NWAD POT.4

POT, v.t. To preserve seasoned in pots; as potted fowl and fish. NWAD POT.5

1. To inclose or cover in pots of earth. NWAD POT.6

2. To put in casks for draining; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler and placing it in hogsheads with perforated heads, from which the molasses percolates through the spongy stalk of a plantain leaf. NWAD POT.7

POTABLE, a. [Low L. potabilis; from L. poto, to drink; potus, drink; Gr. to drink.] Drinkable; that may be drank; as water fresh and potable. NWAD POTABLE.1

Rivers run potable gold. NWAD POTABLE.2

POTABLE, n. Something that may be drank. NWAD POTABLE.3

POTABLENESS, n. The quality of being drinkable. NWAD POTABLENESS.1

POTAGE, n. A species of food made of meat boiled to softness in water, usually with some vegetables or sweet herbs. NWAD POTAGE.1

POTAGER, n. [from potage.] A porringer. NWAD POTAGER.1

POTAGRO, POTARGO, n. A kind of pickle imported from the West Indies. NWAD POTAGRO.1

POTANCE, n. With watchmakers, the stud in which the lower pivot of the verge is placed. NWAD POTANCE.1

POTASH, n. [pot and ashes.] The popular name of vegetable fixed alkali in an impure state, procured from the ashes of plants by lixiviation and evaporation. The matter remaining after evaporation is refined in a crucible or furnace, and the extractive substance burnt off or dissipated. Refined potash is called pearlash. The plants which yield the greatest quantity of potash are wormwood and fumitory. NWAD POTASH.1

By recent discoveries of Sir H. Davy, it appears that potash is a metallic oxyd; the metal is called potassium, and the alkali, in books of science, is called potassa. NWAD POTASH.2

POTASSA, n. The scientific name of vegetable alkali or potash. NWAD POTASSA.1

POTASSIUM, n. A name given to the metallic basis of vegetable alkali. According to Dr. Davy, 100 parts of potash consist of 86.1 parts of the basis, and 13.9 of oxygen. NWAD POTASSIUM.1

Potassium has the most powerful affinity for oxygen of all substances known; it takes it from every other compound, and hence is a most important agent in chimical analysis. NWAD POTASSIUM.2

POTATION, n. [L. potatio. See Potable.] NWAD POTATION.1

1. A drinking or drinking bout. NWAD POTATION.2

2. A draught. NWAD POTATION.3

3. A species of drink. NWAD POTATION.4

POTATO, n. A plant and esculent root of the genus Solanum, a native of America. The root of this plant, which is usually called potatoe, constitutes one of the cheapest and most nourishing species of vegetable food; it is the principal food of the poor in some countries, and has often contributed to prevent famine. It was introduced into the British dominions by Sir Walter Raleigh or other adventurers in the 16th century; but is came slowly into use, and at this day is not much cultivated and used in some countries of Europe. In the British dominions and in the United States, it has proved one of the greatest blessings bestowed on man by the Creator. NWAD POTATO.1

POT-BELLIED, a. Having a prominent belly. NWAD POT-BELLIED.1

POT-BELLY, n. A protuberant belly. NWAD POT-BELLY.1

POTCH, v.t. [Eng. to poke.] To thrust; to push. [Not used.] NWAD POTCH.1

1. To poach; to boil slightly. [Not used.] NWAD POTCH.2

POT-COMPANION, n. An associate or companion in drinking; applied generally to habitual hard drinkers. NWAD POT-COMPANION.1

POTELOT, n. The sulphuret of molybden. NWAD POTELOT.1

POTENCE, n. In heraldry, a cross whose ends resemble the head of a crutch. NWAD POTENCE.1

POTENCY, n. [L. potentia, from potens; possum, posse. See Power.] NWAD POTENCY.1

1. Power; physical power, energy or efficacy; strength. NWAD POTENCY.2

2. Moral power; influence; authority. NWAD POTENCY.3

Now arriving NWAD POTENCY.4

At place of potency and sway o’ th’ state. NWAD POTENCY.5

POTENT, a. [L. potens.] Powerful; physically strong; forcible; efficacious; as a potent medicine. NWAD POTENT.1

Moses once more his potent rod extends. NWAD POTENT.2

1. Powerful, in a moral sense; having great influence; as potent interest; a potent argument. NWAD POTENT.3

2. Having great authority, control or dominion; as a potent prince. NWAD POTENT.4

POTENT, n. A prince; a potentate. [Not in use.] NWAD POTENT.5

1. A walking staff or crutch. [Not used.] NWAD POTENT.6

POTENTACY, n. Sovereignty. [Not used.] NWAD POTENTACY.1

POTENTATE, n. A person who possesses great power or sway; a prince; a sovereign; an emperor, king or monarch. NWAD POTENTATE.1

Exalting him not only above earthly princes and potentates, but above the highest of the celestial hierarchy. NWAD POTENTATE.2

POTENTIAL, a. [L. potentialis.] Having power to impress on us the ideas of certain qualities, though the qualities are not inherent in the thing; as potential heat or cold. NWAD POTENTIAL.1

1. Existing in possibility, not in act. NWAD POTENTIAL.2

This potential and imaginary materia prima, cannot exist without form. NWAD POTENTIAL.3

2. Efficacious; powerful. [Not in use.] NWAD POTENTIAL.4

Potential cautery, in medicine, is the consuming or reducing to an eschar, any part of the body by a caustic alkaline or metallic salt, etc. instead of a red hot iron, the use of which is called actual cautery. NWAD POTENTIAL.5

Potential mode, in grammar, is that form of the verb which is used to express the power, possibility, liberty or necessity of an action or of being; as, I may go; he can write. This, in English, is not strictly a distinct mode, but the indicative or declarative mode, affirming the power to act, instead of the act itself. I may go or can go, are equivalent to, I have power to go. NWAD POTENTIAL.6

POTENTIAL, n. Any thing that may be possible. NWAD POTENTIAL.7

POTENTIALITY, n. Possibility; not actuality. NWAD POTENTIALITY.1

POTENTIALLY, adv. In possibility; not in act; not positively. NWAD POTENTIALLY.1

This duration of human souls is only potentially infinite. NWAD POTENTIALLY.2

1. In efficacy, not in actuality; as potentially cold. NWAD POTENTIALLY.3

POTENTLY, adv. Powerfully; with great force or energy. NWAD POTENTLY.1

You are potently opposed. NWAD POTENTLY.2

POTENTNESS, n. Powerfulness; strength; might. [Little used.] NWAD POTENTNESS.1

POTESTATIVE, a. [from L. potestas.] Authoritative. [Not used.] NWAD POTESTATIVE.1

POTGUN, for popgun. [Not used.] NWAD POTGUN.1

POT-HANGER, n. [pot and hanger.] A pot-hook. NWAD POT-HANGER.1

POTHECARY, contracted from apothecary, and very vulgar. [See the latter.] NWAD POTHECARY.1

POTHER, n. [This word is vulgarly pronounced bother. Its origin and affinities are not ascertained.] NWAD POTHER.1

1. Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter. [Low.] NWAD POTHER.2

2. A suffocating cloud. NWAD POTHER.3

POTHER, v.i. To make a blustering ineffectual effort; to make a stir. NWAD POTHER.4

POTHER, v.t. To harass and perplex; to puzzle. NWAD POTHER.5

POTHERB, n. An herb for the pot or for cookery; a culinary plant. NWAD POTHERB.1

POT-HOOK, n. A hook on which pots and kettles are hung over the fire. NWAD POT-HOOK.1

1. A letter or character like a pot-hook; a scrawled letter. NWAD POT-HOOK.2

POTION, n. [L. potio; poto, to drink.] NWAD POTION.1

A draught; usually, a liquid medicine; a dose. NWAD POTION.2

POTLID, n. The lid or cover of a pot. NWAD POTLID.1

POT-MAN, n. A pot companion. NWAD POT-MAN.1

POTSHERD, n. A piece or fragment of a broken pot. Job 2:8. NWAD POTSHERD.1

POTSTONE, n. Potstone appears to be indurated black talck, passing into serpentine. It has a curved and undulatingly lamellar structure, passing into slaty. NWAD POTSTONE.1

Potstone is of a greenish gray color. It occurs massive, or in granular concretions. NWAD POTSTONE.2

Potstone is a variety of steatite. NWAD POTSTONE.3