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To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over.

A proceeding in a court of judicature, after an inhibition is decreed.

A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.

being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

Patterned after one's self. The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own mind, -- is automorphic. H. Spenser.

An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie.

A particular time (as in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria. Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! Byron.

To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant. To review The wrongful sentence, and award a new. Dryden.

Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton.

Moving or operating backward; as, back action. Back charges, charges brought forward after an account has been made up. -- Back filling (Arch.), the mass of materials used in filling up the space between two walls, or between the inner and outer faces of a wall, or upon the haunches of an arch or vault. -- Back press…

To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

ow of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is though…

of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.

A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks." Tubs hanging in the balks. Chaucer.

In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates.

A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.

To partake of a dessert after a feast. [Obs.] Where they did both sup and banquet. Cavendish.

A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.

on American swallow (Hirundo horreorum), which attaches its nest of mud to the beams and rafters of barns.