Word Meanings - TUFTHUNTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities.

• After-wit
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
• Hangbird
  The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.
• Quality
  The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.
• AFTERWARDSAFTERWARD
  At a later or succeeding time.
• 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-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• Hang-bies
  of Hang-by
• AFTERWIT
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use. "After- wit comes too late when the mischief is done." L'Estrange.
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• Aftermath
  A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
• English
  Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
• Hang-by
  A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt.
• Seeking
  of Seek
• AFTERWITTED
  Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.
• After-mentioned
  Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).
• Englished
  of English
• Hangdog
  A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.

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