Definition of second

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Second (a.) Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other..

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Piarist :: Piarist (n.) One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century..
Retail :: Retail (n.) To sell at second hand.
Related :: Related (p. p. & a.) Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree..
Twifallow :: Twifallow (v. t.) To plow, or fallow, a second time (land that has been once fallowed)..
Heteropelmous :: Heteropelmous (a.) Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append..
Recharter :: Recharter (v. t.) To charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to.
Ophite :: Ophite (a.) A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
Needle :: Needle (n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
Biennial :: Biennial (a.) Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second..
Rebaptize :: Rebaptize (v. t.) To baptize again or a second time.
Zeolite :: Zeolite (n.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe..
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) A change in the order of the terms of a proportion, so that the second takes the place of the first, and the fourth of the third..
Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct..
Lap :: Lap (n.) The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader..
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
Consequent :: Consequent (n.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent..
Resummons :: Resummons (n.) A second summons.
Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (n.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second.
Repetition :: Repetition (n.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note..
Inch :: Inch (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic..
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