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an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata. -- Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. -- Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines. -- External angles, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are pro…

ars's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."A stiff annalistic method." Sir G. C. Lewis.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

Opposition to imperialism; -- applied specif., in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matt…

sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

The Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

A verse said before and after the psalms. Shipley.

An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. Dunglison.

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.

in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment. M. Stuart.

The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone. [Obs.]

The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation. Circle of perpetual apparition. See under Circle.

person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation Milton.

After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.

Desiring; eagerly desirous. [R.] Appetent after glory and renown. Sir G. Buck.

Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something. Holland.

The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.

The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.