Definition of after

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After (prep.) Behind in place; as, men in line one after another..

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Heterogenesis :: Heterogenesis (n.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis..
Tinkerly :: Tinkerly (a.) After the manner of a tinker.
Cabbiri :: Cabbiri (n. pl.) Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephaestus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals..
Spare :: Spare (n.) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare..
Revest :: Revest (v. i.) To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revests in A after alienation..
Writer :: Writer (n.) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor..
Refit :: Refit (v. t.) To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war..
Elamite :: Elamite (n.) A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia..
Postpone :: Postpone (v. t.) To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance..
Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic..
Flat-cap :: Flat-cap (n.) A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London..
Siesta :: Siesta (n.) A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap..
No :: No (adv.) Nay; not; not at all; not in any respect or degree; -- a word expressing negation, denial, or refusal. Before or after another negative, no is emphatic..
Whipstitch :: Whipstitch (v. t.) To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land..
Seventeenth :: Seventeenth (n.) The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
Daguerreotype :: Daguerreotype (n.) An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury..
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople..
Rage :: Rage (n.) The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage..
Out :: Out (a.) In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation which is exterior to something; -- opposed to in or into. The something may be expressed after of, from, etc. (see Out of, below); or, if not expressed, it is implied; as, he is out; or, he is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc..
Land :: Land (v. t.) To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes..
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