Word Meanings - FOURTEENTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.

• 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.
• Thirteenth
  Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.
• AFTERDAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• 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.
• Fourteenth
  Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.
• 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).
• AFTERGLOW
  A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset.
• Aftercast
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late.
• Aftermost
  Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.
• Monthling
  That which is a month old, or which lives for a month.
• 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.
• Afterclap
  An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.

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