post geniture

The state or condition of a child born after another in the same family. post-glacial, a. Geol.: A term applied to the oldest division but one of the Post-tertiary period. post-mortem, a. & s. A. As adj .: After death, as a post - mortem examination, i . e., one made after the death of a person, in order to ascertain the cause of death either in the interests of science, or for the ends of justice. B. As subst.: A post-mortem examination. post-natal, a. Subsequent to birth. "Those whose idiocy depends on post - natal diseases." Sankey : Experimental Diseases , lect. vi. post-nate, a. Subsequent. "But a second or post-nate thing."-Cudworth: Intell System , p. 585. sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, post-nat us, a. & 8. A. As adj .: Born after or subsequently. B. As substantive: 1. Eng . Law: The second son. 2. Scots Law: One born in Scotland after the acpe ion of James I. (of England), who was held not to be an alien in England. Bost-note, s. A note i ued by a bank, payable at some future time, not on demand. post-nuptial, a. Being made or happening after marriage; as, a post - nuptial settlement. post-obit, s. & a. [Lat. post =after, and obit us =death.] A. As substantive: 1. A bond given as security for the repayment of a sum of money to a lender on the death of some specified person, from whom the borrower has expectations. Such loans in almost every case carry high, if not usurious, rates of interest, and generally the borrower binds himself to pay a much larger sum than he receives, in consideration of the risk which the lender runs in the case of the borrower dying before the person from whom he has expectations. 2. A post-mortem examination. B. As adj.: After death; posthumous; as, a post obit bond. post-œsophageal, a. IMG:content-1381.png:[blocks in formation] he chalked up the debts of his customers; hence, a *5. The door-post of a victualer's shop, on which score, a debt. ( Eng .) "When God sends coyne I will discharge your poast ." Rowlands : Knave of Clubs. 1. Knight of the Post : [KNIGHT OF THE POST.] 2. Post and paling : A close wooden fence, constructed with posts fixed in the ground, and pales nailed between them. 3. Post and pane, post and petrail : English terms applied to buildings erected with timber framings and panels of brick or lath and plaster. [BRICK NOGGING.] 4. Post and railing , post and rails : (1) A kind of open wooden fence for the protection of young quickset hedges. It consists of posts and rails, . "The stag had jumped some post - and - rails ."- Field , Feb. 20, 1886. (2) (See extract.) "The tea is more frequently bad than good. The bad, from the stalks occasionally found in the decoction, is popularly known as posts and rails tea."- London Daily Anat.: Situated behind the gullet or esophagus. Telegraph. post-oral, a. Anat.: Situated behind the mouth. post-pliocene, a. Geol.: In the etymological sense, more modern than the Pliocene, i . e . , embracing all the deposits from the end of the Pliocene till now; but Lyell, who introduced the term, restricts it to the older of these, applying the term Recent to the others. In This Post-pliocene strata, all the shells are of recent species, but a portion, and that often a considerable one, of the mammals are extinct. In the Recent strata, again, both the shells and the mammals belong to recent species. ( Lyell : Antiquity of Man (1863), pp. 5, 6.) post-position, s. 1. Ord . Lang .: The act of placing after; the state of being placed after or behind. "Nor is the post - position of the nominative case to the werb against the use of the tongue." -Mede: Daniel's Weeks , p. 36. 2. Gram.: A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, a word.