Word Meanings - COURTLIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.

• COURTLEET
  A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.
• 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.
• Courtesies
  of Courtesy
• Court-plaster
  Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.
• AFTERDAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• COURTMARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• Courtship
  The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor.
• AFTERDINNER
  The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. [Obs.] -- a.
• COURTPLASTER
  Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.
• Aftermath
  A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
• Courtesied
  of Courtesy
• Court tennis
  See under Tennis.
• AFTEREATAGE
  Aftergrass.
• COURTTENNIS
  See under Tennis.

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