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After the manner of an acrostic.

stence. [Obs.] The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. Hooker.

A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak.

to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted. Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. Hume.

A striving after. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.

Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive. [Afraid comes after the noun it limits.] "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton.

Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.

the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.

One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. Clarendon.

The first Sunday after Easter Sunday, properly Albless Sunday, because in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite. G. H. Williams.

account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.

nset or sunrise on the summits of mountains; specif., a reillumination sometimes 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.

Art or process of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography. -- A*lu`mi*no*graph"ic (#), a.

g. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.] Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. Trumbull.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully. "Smelt ambrosially." Tennyson.