Word Meanings - POSTRIDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who rides over a post road to carry the mails. Bancroft.

Related words: (words related to POSTRIDER)

• CARRYK
  A carack. Chaucer.
• CARRYALL
  A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
• CARRYTALE
  A talebearer. Shak.
• CARRY
  1. To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off. When he dieth he small carry nothing away. Ps. xiix. 17. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence
• CARRYING
  The act or business of transporting from one place to another. Carrying place, a carry; a portage. -- Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with
• SCARRY
  Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
• MISCARRY
  1. To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. My ships have all miscarried. Shak. The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak. 2. To bring forth young
• 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.
• OVERCARRY
  To carry too far; to carry beyond the proper point. Hayward.
• CANTHARIDES
  See CANTHARIS
• ALECTORIDES
  A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.
• BRIDESMAN
  A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." Sir W. Scott.
• VIRIDESCENT
  Slightly green; greenish.
• BRIDESTAKE
  A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. Divide the broad bridecake Round about the bridestake. B. Jonson.
• BRIDESMAID
  A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.
• VIRIDESCENCE
  Quality or state of being viridescent.
• IRIDESCENCE
  Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl.
• IRIDESCENT
  Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.
• RECARRY
  To carry back. Walton.