Word Meanings - NONJUROR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.
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- AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - JAMESTOWN WEED
The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium , a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum. - THOSE
The plural of that. See That. - AFTERSHAFT
The hypoptilum. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - REFUSABLE
Capable of being refused; admitting of refusal. - AFTER DAMP
An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. - AFTER-NOTE
One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note. - AFTERWISE
Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late. - REVOLUTION
The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according - REVOLUTIONIZE
To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames. The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. J. M. Mason. - AFTERINGS
The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose. - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - JAMESONITE
A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron. - JAMES'S POWDER
Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder. - AFTER-EATAGE
Aftergrass. - AFTERGUARD
The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten. - REVOLUTIONIST
One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke. - AFTER-DINNER
The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. -- a. - SPATHOSE
See SPATHIC - CRAFTER
a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman. - THEREAFTER
1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, - COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY; COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY
marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary. - INGRAFTER
A person who ingrafts. - WAFTER
1. One who, or that which, wafts. O Charon, Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane. Beau. & FL. 2. A boat for passage. Ainsworth.