Word Meanings - MAXIMGUN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of machine gun; -- named after its inventor, Hiram S. Maxim.

• 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.
• 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.
• Maximum
  The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to minimum.
• 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.
• Inventor
  One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.
• 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).
• Inventorial
  Of or pertaining to an inventory.
• Namable
  Capable of being named.
• 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.

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