Postal: alternatives and connections

A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail.

Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities.

A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in…

A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some…

Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk.

The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's du…

A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.

That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employmen…

One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, t…

The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting…

A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging / hinging post.

Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.

A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and…

A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middl…

Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain ac…

the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office; "the mail handles billions of items every day"; "he works for the Uni…

In the widest sense, the whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those c…