Post
POST, adjective Suborned; hired to do what is wrong. [Not in use.]
POST, noun [Latin postis, from positus, the given participle of pono, to place.]
1. A piece of timber set upright, usually larger than a stake, and intended to support something else; as the posts of a house; the posts of a door; the posts of a gate; the posts of a fence.
2. A military station; the place where a single soldier or a body of troops is stationed. The sentinel must not desert his post The troops are ordered to defend the post Hence,
3. The troops stationed in a particular place, or the ground they occupy.
4. A public office or employment, that is, a fixed place or station.
When vice prevails and impious men bear sway,
The post of honor is a private station.
5. A messenger or a carrier of letters and papers; one that goes at stated times to convey the mail or dispatches. This sense also denotes fixedness, either from the practice of using relays of horses stationed at particular places, or of stationing men for carrying dispatches, or from the fixed stages where they were to be supplied with refreshment. [See Stage.] Xenophon informs us the Cyrus, king of Persia, established such stations or houses.
6. A seat or situation.
7. A sort of writing paper, such as is used for letters; letter paper.
8. An old game at cards.
To ride post to be employed to carry dispatches and papers, and as such carriers rode in haste, hence the phrase signifies to ride in haste, to pass with expedition. post is used also adverbially, for swiftly, expeditiously, or expressly.
Sent from Media post to Egypt.
Hence, to travel post is to travel expeditiously by the use of fresh horses taken at certain stations.
Knight of the post a fellow suborned or hired to do a bad action.
POST, verb intransitive To travel with speed.
And post o'er land and ocean without rest.
POST, verb transitive To fix to a post; as, to post a notification.
1. To expose to public reproach by fixing the name to a post; to expose to opprobrium by some public action; as, to post a coward.
2. To advertise on a post or in a public place; as, to post a stray horse.
3. To set; to place; to station; as, to post troops on a hill, or in front or on the flank of an army.
4. In book-keeping, to carry accounts from the waste-book or journal to the ledger.
To post off, to put off; to delay. [Not used.]
POST, a Latin preposition, signifying after. It is used in this sense in composition in many English words.