Word Meanings - POSTERN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. Mahan. (more info) 1. Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate. He by

Additional info about word: POSTERN

A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. Mahan. (more info) 1. Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate. He by a privy postern took his flight. Spenser. Out at the postern, by the abbey wall. Shak.

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• INTERIOR
  1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball. 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore;
• COMMUNICATIVENESS
  The quality of being communicative. Norris.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• DITCHER
  One who digs ditches.
• INTERIORLY
  Internally; inwardly.
• COMMUNICATIVE
  Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift.
• PRIVATEERSMAN
  An officer or seaman of a privateer.
• DITCH
  1. A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse. 2. Any long,
• PASSAGEWAY
  A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• COMMUNICATION
  A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of
• PASSAGE
  1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• PRIVATE
  to an individual, private, properly p. p. of privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr. privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward and akin to prae 1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or
• PRIVATELY
  1. In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others. 2. In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited.
• PARADE
  An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private , according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• SELF-COMMUNICATIVE
  Imparting or communicating by its own powers.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• UNDERDITCH
  To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.
• SUBTERRANEAN; SUBTERRANEOUS
  Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage. -- Sub`ter*ra"ne*ous*ly, adv.
• INCOMMUNICATING
  Having no communion or intercourse with each other. Sir M. Hale.
• INCOMMUNICATIVE
  Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive. The Chinese . . . an incommunicative