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Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.

To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway.

Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).

Against; also, towards (in order to meet). [Obs.] Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.

Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale.

; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding.

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.

The warden, or keeper of a jail.

The district or ward of an alderman.

On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.

Allurement. [R.] Hayward.

In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward. We will go along by the king's highway. Numb. xxi. 22. He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Coleridge.

s observed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.

Circuit or compass. His great parts did not live within a small ambit. Milward.