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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Gabel :: Gabel (n.) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise..
Imposthume :: Imposthume (n.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
Springer :: Springer (n.) The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring..
Chaptrel :: Chaptrel (n.) An impost.
Sophist :: Sophist (n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner..
Impostured :: Impostured (a.) Done by imposture.
Imposturous :: Imposturous (a.) Impostrous; deceitful.
Imposture :: Imposture (n.) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
Juggle :: Juggle (n.) An imposture; a deception.
Springer :: Springer (n.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer..
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..
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..
Hanse :: Hanse (n.) That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
Charlatan :: Charlatan (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank..
Mocker :: Mocker (n.) A deceiver; an impostor.
Impost :: Impost (n.) That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country..
Trickery :: Trickery (n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Excise :: Excise (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system..
Trething :: Trething (n.) A tax; an impost.
Truage :: Truage (n.) A tax or impost; tribute.
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