| • | Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. |
| • | 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. |
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