Obs. [AFTER- 6.]
1. = AFTERBIRTH.
1576. Baker, trans. Gesner’s Jewell of Health, 64. The water druncke in tyme of traueyle of chylde … sendeth forth the after burthen.
1688. Lady Waldegrave, in Lond. Gaz., 22 Oct. This Deponent took the After-Burthen, and put it into a Bason of Water.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v., To bring away the After-Burden, take the Leaves of fresh Smallage.
1754–64. Smellie, Midwifery, III. 398. Passing up my hand to fetch the after-burdens, there being two entirely separate.
2. fig.
1655. H. Vaughan, Silex Scint., I. (1858), 116. Casting in my heart The after-burthens, and griefs yet to come.
