Definitions for the word, post

(a.) Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

(adv.) With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.

(n.) A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

(n.) One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.

(n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

(n.) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited.

(n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.

(v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.

(v. i.) To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.

(v. t.) To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.

(v. t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.

(v. t.) To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.

(v. t.) To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.


16 words found in the Scrabble word, post



Scrabble letter values
A is 1 points
B is 3 points
C is 3 points
D is 2 points
E is 1 points
F is 4 points
G is 2 points
H is 4 points
I is 1 points
J is 8 points
K is 5 points
L is 1 points
M is 3 points
N is 1 points
O is 1 points
P is 3 points
Q is 10 points
R is 1 points
S is 1 points
T is 1 points
U is 1 points
V is 4 points
W is 4 points
X is 8 points
Y is 4 points
Z is 10 points



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