Definition of after

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After (a.) To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway..

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Botanize :: Botanize (v. i.) To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
Appetition :: Appetition (n.) Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something..
Overplus :: Overplus (n.) That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus..
Cappadine :: Cappadine (n.) A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag..
Alias :: Alias (n.) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
Aftershaft :: Aftershaft (n.) The hypoptilum.
Back :: Back (adv.) To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it..
Making-iron :: Making-iron (n.) A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in..
Ninetieth :: Ninetieth (n.) The next in order after the eighty-ninth.
Well :: Well (v. i.) A depressed space in the after part of the deck; -- often called the cockpit.
Boottopping :: Boottopping (n.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off..
Teneral :: Teneral (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring..
Fourth :: Fourth (a.) Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
Postdate :: Postdate (v. t.) To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made..
#NAME? :: -esque () A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like; as, arabesque, after the manner of the Arabs..
Cyanuric Acid :: Cyanuric acid () an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide..
Persistency :: Persistency (n.) The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is remove.
Postgeniture :: Postgeniture (n.) The condition of being born after another in the same family; -- distinguished from primogeniture.
Ingrafter :: Ingrafter (n.) A person who ingrafts.
Reflorescence :: Reflorescence (n.) A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season.
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