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 (?), 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.