Posthouse: alternatives and connections

Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at th…

A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings.

Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.

The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the st…

To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the e…

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-…

Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures,…

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

One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses.

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

The person who has the care of horses at an inn or stable; hence, any one who takes care of horses; a groom; -- so called because the…

To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to ho…

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…

The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery.

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

The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.

The upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at t…

One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissen…