Word Meanings - AFTERDINNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. [Obs.] -- a.

• 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.
• Sleepwaker
  On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
• AFTERWITTED
  Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• Sleepwaking
  The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
• SLEEPATNOON
  A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.
• Aftermath
  A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
• Sleepwalker
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• SLEEPCHARGED
  Heavy with sleep.
• 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).
• Dinnerless
  Having no dinner.
• Sleepwalking
  Walking in one's sleep.
• Aftercast
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late.
• Aftermost
  Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.

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