Word Meanings - AFTERDAMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

• After-image
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
• After-wit
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
• Remaining
  of Remain
• AFTERWITTED
  Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• CHOKEBORE
  To provide with a chokebore.
• Aftermath
  A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
• Remainder
  Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.
• CHOKEDAMP
  See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
• Afterbirth
  The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.
• After-mentioned
  Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).
• Remainder-men
  of Remainder-man
• CHOKEFULL
  Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.
• Aftercast
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late.
• Aftermost
  Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.

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