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Recast :: Recast (v. t.) To compute, or cast up, a second time..

Reengage :: Reengage (v. t. & i.) To engage a second time or again.

Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant..

Farad :: Farad (n.) The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt..

Reparel :: Reparel (n.) A change of apparel; a second or different suit.

Recolonization :: Recolonization (n.) A second or renewed colonization.

Antispast :: Antispast (n.) A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#)..

Unseconded :: Unseconded (a.) Not exemplified a second time.

Trochee :: Trochee (n.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus..

Alias :: Alias (n.) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

Second :: Second (a.) To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.

Deuteroscopy :: Deuteroscopy (n.) Second sight.

One-horse :: One-horse (a.) Second-rate; inferior; small.

Reapportionment :: Reapportionment (n.) A second or a new apportionment.

Reentry :: Reentry (n.) A second or new entry; as, a reentry into public life..

Whether :: Whether (conj.) In case; if; -- used to introduce the first or two or more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by or, or by or whether. When the second of two alternatives is the simple negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by the particle not or no after the correlative, and sometimes it is omitted entirely as being distinctly implied in the whether of the first..

Newel :: Newel (n.) The upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. See Hollow newel, under Hollow..

Chronometer :: Chronometer (n.) A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc..

Singleness :: Singleness (n.) Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as, singleness of purpose; singleness of heart..

Allegory :: Allegory (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject..

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