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Word Meanings - RETIRADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle.
- WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - 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. - Disputableness
State of being disputable. - Whichever
Alt. of Whichsoever - Afterings
The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. - After-witted
Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted. - Disputacity
Proneness to dispute. - Whichsoever
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - Aftermath
A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. - Disputant
Disputing; engaged in controversy. - AFTERDAMP
An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. - 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). - Disputation
The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument. - AFTERDINNER
The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. [Obs.] -- a. - Aftercast
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late.
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