Word Meanings - AMBROSIALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully. "Smelt ambrosially." Tennyson.

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• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• 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.
• SMELTERY
  A house or place for smelting.
• SMELT
  of Smell.
• 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.
• AMBROSIA BEETLE
  A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia.
• AMBROSIA
  The fabled food of the gods , which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. An unguent of the gods. His dewy locks distilled ambrosia. Milton. 2. A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.
• AMBROSIAN
  Ambrosial. . Jonson.
• 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.
• SMELTING
  a. & n. from Smelt. Smelting furnace , a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• AFTERWISE
  Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• 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.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• 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.
• 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.