Index of English words, starting with "po"

(1) - Postil (v. i.) To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate.
(2) - Postil (v. t.) To write marginal or explanatory notes on; to gloss.
(3) - Postil (n.) A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne.
(4) - Postil (n.) Originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible, so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment.

(1) - Postilion (n.) One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used.

(1) - Postliminy (n.) The right by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
(2) - Postliminy (n.) The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy.