Index of English words, starting with "po"

(1) - Possibility (n.) That which is possible; a contingency; a thing or event that may not happen; a contingent interest, as in real or personal estate.
(2) - Possibility (n.) The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

(1) - Possible (a.) Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong.

(1) - Possibly (adv.) In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover.

(1) - Possum (n.) An opossum.

(1) - Post (n.) A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.
(2) - Post (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.
(3) - Post (n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
(4) - Post (n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.
(5) - Post (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.
(6) - Post (n.) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
(7) - Post (n.) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited.
(8) - 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.
(9) - 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.
(10) - Post (n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
(11) - Post (a.) Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
(12) - Post (n.) A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
(13) - Post (adv.) With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
(14) - Post (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.
(15) - Post (v. t.) To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.
(16) - Post (v. t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
(17) - Post (v. t.) To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.
(18) - Post (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.
(19) - Post (v. t.) To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
(20) - Post (v. t.) To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
(21) - Post (v. i.) To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
(22) - Post (v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.
(23) - Post (n.) One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.