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A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse. With wind in poop, the vessel plows the sea. Dryden. The poop was beaten gold. Shak.

iness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc. "Seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed." Gen. xli. 19.

al families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born. Sir T. Palgrave.

r; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.

sed again in this land. Jer. xxxii. 15. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possessed. Milton.

A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript.

An act done afterward.

A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions.

To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.

Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.

One who lived after the flood.

The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried, after a verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is indorsed on the nisi prius record. Wharton.

Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior. Hesiod was posterior to Homer. Broome.

After the exile; specif. (Jewish Hist.),

To exist after; to live subsequently. [Obs. or R.]

Existing or living after. [R.] "Postexistent atoms." Cudworth.

Relating to a fact that occurs after another.

The condition of being born after another in the same family; - - distinguished from primogeniture. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Formed or occurring after the last glacial epoch of the Pleistocene period, or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate. -- n.