Definition of after

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After (prep.) Moving toward from behind; following, in search of; in pursuit of..

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Poach :: Poach (v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel..
Copy :: Copy (n.) To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off..
Sithen :: Sithen (adv. & conj.) Since; afterwards. See 1st Sith.
Reaggravation :: Reaggravation (n.) The last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication..
Nonjuror :: Nonjuror (n.) One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite..
Quintan :: Quintan (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever..
Proximo :: Proximo () In the next month after the present; -- often contracted to prox.; as, on the 3d proximo..
Tenebrae :: Tenebrae (n.) The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days..
Afternoon :: Afternoon (n.) The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening..
Acrostically :: Acrostically (adv.) After the manner of an acrostic.
Quadrille :: Quadrille (n.) A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded..
Stepbrother :: Step- () A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc..
Will :: Will (v.) The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1..
Thirteenth :: Thirteenth (a.) Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month..
Taglioni :: Taglioni (n.) A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers..
Reland :: Reland (v. i.) To go on shore after having embarked; to land again.
Levitically :: Levitically (adv.) After the manner of the Levites; in accordance with the levitical law.
Clue :: Clue (n.) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail..
Ask :: Ask (v. i.) To make inquiry, or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after..
Aftergrass :: Aftergrass (n.) The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath.
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