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The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.

The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [Obs.] Grose.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

Nearest the stern; most aft.

The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.

The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.

A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.

, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

The hypoptilum.

A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking.

Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.

At a later or succeeding time.

Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.

Nearest the stern.

Toward the stern.

Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse. Abaft the beam. See under Beam.

A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.

Any device, as a balloon, aëroplane, etc., for floating in, or flying through, the air.

After. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Bafta.