Definition of second

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Second (a.) Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior..

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Reordination :: Reordination (n.) A second ordination.
Randan :: Randan (n.) The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran.
Rebaptize :: Rebaptize (v. t.) To baptize again or a second time.
Browning :: Browning (n.) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster..
February :: February (n.) The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days..
Third :: Third (a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day..
Second :: Second (a.) To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.
Gizzard :: Gizzard (n.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium..
Yearling :: Yearling (n.) An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses..
Ophite :: Ophite (a.) A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
Decompound :: Decompound (v. t.) To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.
Hieroglyphic :: Hieroglyphic (a.) A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a s
#NAME? :: -ine () A suffix, used to indicate hydrocarbons of the second degree of unsaturation; i. e., members of the acetyline series; as, hexine, heptine, etc..
Candlemas :: Candlemas (n.) The second day of February, on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day..
Hyperboloid :: Hyperboloid (n.) A surface of the second order, which is cut by certain planes in hyperbolas; also, the solid, bounded in part by such a surface..
Reassemblage :: Reassemblage (n.) Assemblage a second time or again.
Labium :: Labium (n.) The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath, and serves as an under lip. It consists of the second pair of maxillae, usually closely united in the middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi in most insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum)..
Assumption :: Assumption (n.) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
Readjournment :: Readjournment (n.) The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.
Extreme :: Extreme (a.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth..
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