Definition of after

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After (prep.) Below in rank; next to in order.

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Rejoin :: Rejoin (v. t.) To join again; to unite after separation.
Dangler :: Dangler (n.) One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler..
Dogdraw :: Dogdraw (n.) The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog..
Supralapsarian :: Supralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian..
Searcher :: Searcher (n.) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc..
Midst :: Midst (n.) The interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest..
Train :: Train (v.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
Mounty :: Mounty (v.) The rise of a hawk after prey.
Snatch :: Snatch (n.) A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower..
Skeg :: Skeg (n.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached..
Sarking :: Sarking (n.) Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes..
Ossein :: Ossein (n.) The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen..
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing..
Saturnalia :: Saturnalia (n. pl.) The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves..
Grafter :: Grafter (n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting..
Expansion :: Expansion (n.) The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston..
Subjoinder :: Subjoin (v. t.) To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason..
Chrisom :: Chrisom (n.) A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.
Medusa :: Medusa (n.) The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone..
Paradise :: Paradise (n.) The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation..
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