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On the day after the present day; on the next day; on the morrow. Summon him to-morrow to the Tower. Shak.

The second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast, and below the topgallant mast.

In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship. Topsail schooner. (Naut.) See Schooner, and Illustration in…

A coniferous tree (Podocarpus totara), next to the kauri the most valuable timber tree of New Zeland. Its hard reddish wood is used for furniture and building, esp. in wharves, bridges, etc. Also mahogany pine.

money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another. The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel. Milton. The scepter of that kingdom continued to be tr…

ply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

nsing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like. -- Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; -- so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity. -- Trinity term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n., 5.

s in reptiles. The simple cone then developed a smaller cone in front and another behind. Next, a cingulum was developed, and the three cones became arranged in a triangle, the two smaller cusps having moved to the outer side in upper and to the inner in lower molars. This primitive triangle is called the trigon or tri…

eek, and forms a bearing under the trunnion. -- Trunnion ring (Gun.), a ring on a cannon next before the trunnions. [R.]

Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.

The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.

Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.

The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.

two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.

The sum of one; the number next greater than one, and next less than three; two units or objects.

Clothes worn under others, especially those worn next the skin for warmth.

A shirt worn next the skin, under another shirt; -- called also undervest.

er, the leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes. -- Upper strake (Naut.), the strake next to the deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes. -- Upper ten thousand, or (abbreviated) Upper ten, the ten thousand, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocrac…

ichael. Cowell. The marriage was celebrated and Canterbury, and in the utas of St. Hilary next ensuing she was crowned. Holinshed.

icial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess. "With lawyers in the vacation." Shak.