Definition of impost

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Impost (n.) The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests..

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Cheat :: Cheat (n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
Springer :: Springer (n.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer..
Humbug :: Humbug (n.) One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.
Imposture :: Imposture (n.) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
Impostress :: Impostress (n.) Alt. of Impostri.
Mumper :: Mumper (n.) A beggar; a begging impostor.
Impostrous :: Impostrous (n.) Characterized by imposture; deceitful.
Imposthume :: Imposthume (v. t. & i.) Same as Imposthumate.
Imposturous :: Imposturous (a.) Impostrous; deceitful.
Shammer :: Shammer (n.) One who shams; an impostor.
Imposthumating :: Imposthumating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imposthumat.
Trickery :: Trickery (n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Impostorship :: Impostorship (n.) The condition, character, or practice of an impostor..
Coussinet :: Coussinet (n.) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
Jugglery :: "Jugglery (n.) Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery..
Gabel :: Gabel (n.) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise..
Tallage :: Tallage (v. t.) To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
Hanse :: Hanse (n.) That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
Imposthume :: Imposthume (n.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
Cheat :: Cheat (n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
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