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n. 1. A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A strap that runs across a horse's breast. Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Jewish Antiq.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shovel-like utensil with a short handle used for conveying away dust brushed from the floor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the postage prepaid, as a letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. post- + palatine. ] (Anat.) Situated behind the palate, or behind the palatine bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Geol.) [ Pref. post- + pliocene. ] Of or pertaining to the period immediately following the Pliocene; Pleistocene. Also used as a noun. See Quaternary. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Postponed p. pr. & vb. n. Postponing. ] [ L. postponere, postpositum; post after + ponere to place, put. See Post-, and Position. ] 1. To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely. [ 1913 Webster ]

His praise postponed, and never to be paid. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance. [ 1913 Webster ]

All other considerations should give way and be postponed to this. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To adjourn; defer; delay; procrastinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. postponens, p. pr. ] The act of postponing, in sense 2. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who postpones. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Postposed p. pr. & vb. n. Postposing. ] [ F. postposer. See Post-, and Pose, v. t. ] To postpone. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. postpositus, p. p. See Postpone. ] To postpone. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. postposition. See Postpone. ] 1. The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after. “The postposition of the nominative case to the verb.” Mede. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; -- distinguished from preposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to postposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Postpone. ] Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. -- Post*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]