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one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

e who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. -- Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being present at the commission of the offense.

th century. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey.

Growing larger after flowering. Gray.

To craze. [Obs.] Grafton.

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.

s.] In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory. Grafton.

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 cannon capable of being trained at very high angles for use against aircraft.

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.

Acknowledgment. [Obs.] Grafton.

A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. [Colloq. U. S.]

A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; a flying machine pilot.