Word Meanings - POSTILION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to POSTILION)

• CHAISE
  a carriage in general. Cowper. (more info) 1. A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thoroughbraces. It is usually drawn by one horse. 2. Loosely,
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• COACH
  1. To convey in a coach. Pope. 2. To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. I coached him before he got his scholarship. G. Eliot.
• COACHMAN
  A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ; -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin. (more info) 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
• COACHMANSHIP
  Skill in driving a coach.
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• COACHFELLOW
  One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence , a comrade. Shak.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• COACHDOG
  One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog.
• COACHEE
  A coachman
• HORSESHOEING
  The act or employment of shoeing horses.
• HORSESHOER
  One who shoes horses.
• FIRSTLY
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• COACHWHIP SNAKE
  A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States Note: Its long and tapering tail has the scales so arranged and colored as to give it a braided appearance, whence the name.
• FIRSTLING
  1. The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton. 2. The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak.
• FIRST-HAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• FIRSTBORN
  First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
• COACHBOX
  The seat of a coachman.
• COACHER
  one of the side at the bat posted near first or third base to direct a base runner. (more info) 1. A coachman. 2. A coach horse. 3. One who coaches; specif. ,
• HESPERIDES
  The daughters of Hesperus, or Night , and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules.
• PIERIDES
  The Muses.
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.
• CANTHARIDES
  See CANTHARIS
• STAGECOACHMAN
  One who drives a stagecoach.
• ALECTORIDES
  A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.
• INCOACH
  To put a coach.
• STAGECOACH
  A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
• BRIDESMAN
  A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." Sir W. Scott.