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Word Meanings - POST-MORTEM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

After death; as, post-mortem rigidity. Post-mortem examination , an examination of the body made after the death of the patient; an autopsy.

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  • AFTERCAST
    A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • 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
  • AFTERPAINS
    The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • PATIENTLY
    In a patient manner. Cowper.
  • DEATHWATCH
    A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
  • 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.
  • DEATHWARD
    Toward death.
  • AFTERWISE
    Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
  • RIGIDITY
    1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of from; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness. 2. Stiffness
  • AFTERINGS
    The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose.
  • 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.
  • AFTERGAME
    A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. Wotton. Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl.
  • COMPATIENT
    Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
  • OVERPATIENT
    Patient to excess.
  • OMNIPATIENT
    Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
  • OUT-PATIENT
    A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
  • PREEXAMINATION
    Previous examination.
  • 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,
  • POST-MORTEM
    After death; as, post-mortem rigidity. Post-mortem examination , an examination of the body made after the death of the patient; an autopsy.

 

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