Word Meanings - QUASIMODO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

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• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• 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.
• SUNDAY
  The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day. Advent Sunday, Low Sunday, Passion Sunday, etc. See under Advent, Low, etc. Syn. -- See
• 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.
• EASTERN CHURCH
  That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern
• 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.
• EASTER LILY
  which bloom about Easter; specif.: The common white lily , called also Annunciation lily. The larger white lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. L. Harrisii) called also Bermuda lily. The daffodil . The Atamasco lily.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• EASTER
  to G. ostern; fr. AS. Eástre, a goddess of light or spring, in honor of whom a festival was celebrated in April; whence this month was 1. An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after
• AFTERWISE
  Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
• AFTERINGS
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose.
• AFTER-EATAGE
  Aftergrass.
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• AFTERGUARD
  The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.
• EASTERNMOST
  Most eastern.
• AFTER-DINNER
  The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. -- a.
• 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,
• OLEASTER
  The wild olive tree . Any species of the genus Elæagus. See Eleagnus. The small silvery berries of the common species are called Trebizond dates, and are made into cakes by the Arabs.
• INGRAFTER
  A person who ingrafts.
• SOUTHEASTERN
  Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.
• 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.
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.