Definition of after

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After (prep.) Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause..

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Suffrage :: Suffrage (n.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong..
Research :: Research (n.) Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom..
Duke :: Duke (n.) In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland..
Octave :: Octave (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival..
Rusk :: Rusk (n.) Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar..
Involution :: Involution (n.) The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy..
Muff :: Muff (n.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
Success :: Success (n.) That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort..
Plastic :: plastic (n.) a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905.
Unsweat :: Unsweat (v. t.) To relieve from perspiration; to ease or cool after exercise or toil.
Shade :: Shade (n.) The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes..
File :: File (v. i.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off..
Curiosity :: Curiosity (n.) Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness..
Appetition :: Appetition (n.) Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something..
Grenadier :: Grenadier (n.) Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Grenadier Guards of the British army, etc..
After-sails :: After-sails (n.) The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast..
Spar :: Spar (v. t.) Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters..
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
Reflect :: Reflect (v.) To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat..
Ekasilicon :: Ekasilicon (n.) The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekabor..
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