adv. and prep. Obs. or dial. [f. AFTER prep. + HAND; cf. beforehand, behindhand; formerly a phrase, after the hand.]
A. adv. Afterwards, subsequently; after the event. (Still in Sc.)
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 31. Then is he wise after the honde.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VI. xii. 41. In-tyl hys thowcht ay wald he cast, Efterhend hys Statis all.
1634–46. J. Row (father), Hist. Kirk (1842), 387. Marshall did sweare afterhend that he had not fylled him at all.
1658. S. Lennard, Of Wisdome, II. vii. § 17 (1670), 285. The wise take it before hand … and the feeble and vulgar sort, after-hand.
[1868. G. Macdonald, Rob. Falc., I. 65. The last time he did it, the puir auld man hostit sair efterhin’.]
† B. prep. After. Obs. Sc.
1552. Abp. Hamilton, Catech., 8 a (Jam.). Efter hend all this, thai turnit thame to the brekaris of the law,… saying, [etc.].
