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6. A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
The post of honor is a private station. Addison. 7. A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.
Post and pair, an old game at cards, in which each player a hand of three cards. B. Jonson. — Post
bag, a mail bag. — Post bill, a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster. — Post chaise, or Post coach,
a carriage usually with four wheels, for the conveyance of travelers who travel post. — Post day, a
day on which the mall arrives or departs. — Post hackney, a hired post horse. Sir H. Wotton. —
Post horn, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman. —
Post horse, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the post. — Post hour, hour for posting letters.
Dickens. — Post office. (a) An office under governmental superintendence, where letters, papers,
and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business
connected with the mail. (b) The governmental system for forwarding mail matter. — Postoffice order.
See Money order, under Money. — Post road, or Post route, a road or way over which the mail is
carried. — Post town. (a) A town in which post horses are kept. (b) A town in which a post office
is established by law. — To ride post, to ride, as a carrier of dispatches, from place to place; hence,
to ride rapidly, with as little delay as possible. — To travel post, to travel, as a post does, by relays of
horses, or by keeping one carriage to which fresh horses are attached at each stopping place.
Post
(Post) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Posted; p. pr. & vb. n. Posting.]
1. 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.
Formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's office, or in some public place, upon which legal
notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has not entirely gone of use.
2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as,
to post one for cowardice.
On pain of being posted to your sorrow
Fail not, at four, to meet me. Granville. 3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
4. To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel. "It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant,
. . . or to get him posted." De Quincey.
5. (Bookkeeping) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to
transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.
You have not posted your books these ten years. Arbuthnot. 6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; — often with up.
Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day. Lond. Sat. Rev. To post off, to put off; to delay. [Obs.] "Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?" Baxter.
— To post over, to hurry over. [Obs.] Fuller.
Post
(Post), v. i. [Cf. OF. poster. See 4th Post.]
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