POSSET
POS'SET, noun [Latin posca.] Milk curdled with wine or other liquor.POS'SET, verb transitive To curdle; to turn.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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POSSIBILITY
POSSIBIL'ITY, noun [from possible.] The power of being or existing; the power of happening; the state of being possible. It often implies improbability or great uncertainty. The...
POSSIBLE
POS'SIBLE, adjective [Latin possibilis, from posse. See Power.]That may be or exist; that may be now, or may happen or come to pass; that may be done; not contrary to the nature...
POSSIBLY
POS'SIBLY, adverb By any power, moral or physical, really existing. Learn all that can possibly be known.Can we possibly his love desert?1. Perhaps; without absurdity.Arbitrary ...
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 uprigh...
POST-CHAISE
POST-CHAISE, noun [See Chaise.] A carriage with four wheels for the conveyance of travelers.
POST-DISSEIZIN
POST-DISSE'IZIN, noun 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 land...
POST-DISSEIZOR
POST-DISSE'IZOR, noun A person who disseizes another of lands which he had before recovered of the same person.
POST-EXISTENCE
POST-EXIST'ENCE, noun Subsequent or future existence.
POST-FINE
POST-FINE, noun 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.
POST-HACKNEY
POST-HACK'NEY, noun [post and hackney.] A hired posthorse.
POST-HASTE
POST-HASTE, noun Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier.POST-HASTE, adverb With speed or expedition. He traveled post-haste that is, by an ellipsis, with po...
POST-HORSE
POST-HORSE, noun A horse stationed for the use of couriers.
POST-HOUSE
POST-HOUSE, noun A house where a post-office is kept for receiving and dispatching letters by public mails; a post-office.[The latter word is now in general use.]
POST-NOTE
POST-NOTE, noun [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 ...
POST-OFFICE
POST-OFFICE, noun 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;...
POST-PAID
POST-PAID, adjective Having the postage paid on; as a letter.
POST-TOWN
POST-TOWN, noun A town in which a post-office is established by law.1. A town in which post-horses are kept.
POSTABLE
POSTABLE, adjective That may be carried. [Not used.]
POSTAGE
POSTAGE, noun The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter in a public mail.1. A portage. [Not used.]
POSTBOY
POSTBOY, noun A boy that rides as post; a courier.
POSTDATE
POSTDA'TE, verb transitive [Latin post, after, and date, Latin datum.]To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it after the true time of making ...
POSTDILUVIAL
POSTDILU'VIALPOSTDILU'VIAN, adjective [Latin post, after, and diluvium, the deluge.]Being or happening posterior to the flood in Noah's days.POSTDILU'VIAN, noun A person who liv...
POSTDILUVIAN
POSTDILU'VIAN, a. [L. post, after, and diluvium, the deluge.]Being or happening posterior to the flood in Noah's days.POSTDILU'VIAN, n. A person who lived after the flood, or wh...
POSTEA
POSTEA, noun [Latin] The record of what is done in a cause subsequent to the joining of issue and awarding of trial.
POSTED
POSTED, participle passive Placed; stationed.1. Exposed on a post or by public notice.2. Carried to a ledger, as accounts.
POSTER
POSTER, noun One who posts; also, a courier; one that travels expeditiously.