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.