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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

post³

PRONUNCIATION:	pst
NOUN:	1a. A delivery of mail. b. The mail delivered. 2. Chiefly British a. A governmental system for transporting and delivering the mail. b. A post office. 3a. Archaic One of a series of relay stations along a fixed route, furnishing fresh riders and horses for the delivery of mail on horseback. b. Obsolete A rider on such a mail route; a courier.
VERB:	Inflected forms: post·ed, post·ing, posts
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To mail (a letter or package). 2. To send by mail in a system of relays on horseback. 3. To inform of the latest news: Keep us posted. 4a. To transfer (an item) to a ledger in bookkeeping. b. To make the necessary entries in (a ledger). 5. Computer Science To enter (a unit of information) on a record or into a section of storage.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To travel in stages or relays. 2. To travel with speed or in haste. 3. To bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait.
ADVERB:	1. By mail. 2. With great speed; rapidly. 3. By post horse.
ETYMOLOGY:	French poste, from Old French, relay station for horses, from Old Italian posta, from Vulgar Latin ^*posta, station, from Latin posita, feminine past participle of pnere, to place. See apo- in Appendix I.


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