Word Meanings - AFTER-WIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use. "After- wit comes too late when the mischief is done." L'Estrange.

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• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• PERCEPTION
  The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses;
• WISDOM LITERATURE
  The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs,
• 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.
• COMES
  The answer to the theme in a fugue.
• MISCHIEFFUL
  Mischievous. Foote.
• MISCHIEFABLE
  Mischievous. Lydgate.
• 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
• MISCHIEF-MAKING
  Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. Rowe. -- n.
• AFTER-EATAGE
  Aftergrass.
• AFTERGUARD
  The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.
• UNWISDOM
  Want of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; folly; simplicity; ignorance. Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute. J.
• 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,
• INGRAFTER
  A person who ingrafts.
• APPERCEPTION
  The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. Leibnitz. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception