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Word Meanings - AFTER-MENTIONED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).

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  • AFTERCAST
    A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
  • WRITING
    1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
  • AFTERPAINS
    The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
  • WRITATIVE
    Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
  • WRITER
    1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
  • AFTERSHAFT
    The hypoptilum.
  • AFTERPIECE
    The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
  • WRIT
    3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
  • AFTER DAMP
    An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
  • AFTER-NOTE
    One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
  • WRITHLE
    To wrinkle. Shak.
  • AFTERWISE
    Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
  • AFTERINGS
    The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose.
  • AFTER
    To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
  • WRITERSHIP
    The office of a writer.
  • AFTER-EATAGE
    Aftergrass.
  • AFTERGUARD
    The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.
  • AFTER-DINNER
    The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. -- a.
  • WRITHE
    to OHG. ridan, Icel. ri, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe, Wrest, 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. "With writhing of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and
  • AFTERGAME
    A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. Wotton. Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl.
  • REWRITE
    To write again. Young.
  • TYPEWRITING
    The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • STORY-WRITER
    1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
  • UNMENTIONABLES
    The breeches; trousers.
  • UNDERWRITING
    The business of an underwriter,
  • UNDERWRITER
    One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
  • CRAFTER
    a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
  • UNWRITE
    To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.
  • THEREAFTER
    1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,

 

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