Word Meanings - AFTERWIT - 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.

• 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.
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• AFTERDINNER
  The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. [Obs.] -- a.
• Aftermath
  A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
• AFTEREATAGE
  Aftergrass.
• 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).
• Comessation
  A reveling; a rioting.
• Aftermost
  Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.
• Comestible
  Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent.
• AFTERIMAGE
  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.

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