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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Impostured :: Impostured (a.) Done by imposture.
Impostorship :: Impostorship (n.) The condition, character, or practice of an impostor..
Imposture :: Imposture (n.) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
Chaptrel :: Chaptrel (n.) An impost.
Gabel :: Gabel (n.) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise..
Humbug :: Humbug (n.) One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.
Hanse :: Hanse (n.) That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
Impostress :: Impostress (n.) Alt. of Impostri.
Duty :: Duty (n.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods..
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture..
Tonnage :: Tonnage (n.) A duty or impost on vessels, estimated per ton, or, a duty, toll, or rate payable on goods per ton transported on canals..
Imposthume :: Imposthume (v. t. & i.) Same as Imposthumate.
Imposthume :: Imposthume (n.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
Falsehood :: Falsehood (n.) A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.
Trething :: Trething (n.) A tax; an impost.
Juggle :: Juggle (v. i.) To practice artifice or imposture.
Imposthumate :: Imposthumate (a.) Imposthumated.
Imposthumation :: Imposthumation (n.) The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration.
Impostor :: Impostor (n.) One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender..
Coussinet :: Coussinet (n.) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
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