Word Meanings - DANGLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler. " Danglers at toilets." Burke.

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• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• 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.
• 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.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• 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
• 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.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• AFTERGAME
  A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. Wotton. Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl.
• AFTERGRASS
  The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath.
• WOMEN
  pl. of Woman.
• AFTERTASTE
  A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking.
• AFTERMOST
  Nearest the stern; most aft. (more info) Gothic aftumist and aftuma, the last, orig. a superlative of of, with 1. Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.
• AFTERTHOUGHT
  Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• 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,
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• INGRAFTER
  A person who ingrafts.
• WAFTER
  1. One who, or that which, wafts. O Charon, Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane. Beau. & FL. 2. A boat for passage. Ainsworth.
• STIRABOUT
  A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
• YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which