After nightfall; in the evening; as, "A meeting will be held in the court-house after night." This expression is said to be peculiar to Pennsylvania.--Hurd's Grammatical Corrector.
·noun Darkness; obscurity; concealment. II. Night ·noun The period after the close of life; death. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
[Day] ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·adj Hinder; nearer the rear. II. After ·prep Below in rank; next to in order. III. After ·prep Be...
A comparative adjective, applied to any object in the hind part of a ship or boat; as, the after-cab...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun The evening between twilight and bedtime. ...
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Night lettergram. ...
·add. ·- ·see <<Letter>>, above. ...
·add. ·- A sudden awkening associated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, ·esp. those...
·adj Blooming in the night. ...
·adj Capable of seeing at night; sharp-eyed. ...
·adj Going or traveling in the night. ...
·noun The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various...
(Heb. tahmas) occurs only in the list of unclean birds (Lev. 11:16; Deut. 14:15). This was supposed ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A constable. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Warm grog taken just before turning in. ...
A fish of a reddish colour, about the size of a haddock, so named by Cook's people from the greatest...
The night-watch. ...
·- An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. ·see Carboni...
·noun The time just after dinner. II. After-dinner ·adj Following dinner; post-prandial; as, an aft...
·noun <<Aftergrass>>. ...
·noun A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset. ...
·noun The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been...
·adj Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing). ...
·noun One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from th...
·noun The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast. ...
·noun Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use. ...
·adj Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted. ...
A demand after the first given in has been discharged; a charge for pretended omissions; in short, a...
afterwards. North. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
That part of the ship's hull which is abaft the midships or dead-flat, as seen from astern. The term...
Whatever disagreeable occurrence takes place after the consequences of the cause were thought at an ...
The stern of a ship, or anything in her which has that end towards the stern. ...
See back of the post. ...
The men who are stationed on the quarter-deck and poop, to work the after-sails. It was generally co...
leads to captain's and officers' quarters, and only used by officers. ...
Those which are given out after the regular issue of the daily orders. ...
The locality towards the stern, from dead-flat; as, in the after-part of the fore-hold. ...
The contracted part of a vessel's hold, which lies in the run, or aftermost portion of the hold, in ...
That part of the hull which overhangs the after-end of keel. ...
All those on the after-masts, as well as on the stays between the main and mizen masts. Their effect...
All those timbers abaft the midship section or bearing part of a vessel. ...
·add. ·- A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arr...
You old fly-by-night; an ancient term of reproach to an old woman, signifying that she was a witch, ...
See nankeen crane ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
A sort of square-sail, like a studding-sail, used in sloops when running before the wind; often a te...
A document of some moment, as it contains the captain's behests about change of course, &c., and oug...
The Jews, like the Greeks and Romans, divided the night into military watches instead of hours, each...
To follow closely after.--Forby. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
A cocked hat worn with the peak in front instead of athwart. Also, a very usual term for a schooner ...