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Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use. "After- wit comes too late when the mischief is done." L'Estrange.

A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.

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.

ess. Milton. Archeological ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.…

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.

(Aëronautics) A small plane or surface capable of being manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane.

To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room. It were good wisdom . . . that the jail were aired. Bacon. Were you but riding forth to air yourself. Shak.

A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed.

A grayish green antiseptic powder, consisting of a basic iodide and gallate of bismuth, sometimes used in place of iodoform. [A Trademark]

A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.

Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.

Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv.

A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.

A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

mal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali albumin, albumin as modified by the action of alkaline substan…

Shortened forms of Alcoholate.

room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.