| • | Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. | 
| • | 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. | 
| • | The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were
   chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. | 
| • | The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a
   station. | 
| • | 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. | 
| • | A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of
   troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station. | 
| • | The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. | 
| • | 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. | 
| • | 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. | 
| • | Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. | 
| • | One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal
   station. | 
| • | A station, office, or position of service, trust, or
   emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger. | 
| • | A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under
   Paper. | 
| • | 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. | 
| • | To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise
   opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for
   cowardice. | 
| • | To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or
   the like. | 
| • | To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a
   sentinel. | 
| • | To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger;
   as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger. | 
| • | To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a
   letter. | 
| • | To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted
   with the details of a subject; -- often with up. | 
| • | To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in
   haste. | 
| • | To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the
   motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. | 
| • | With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post. |