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Directly :: Directly (adv.) In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means..

Needle :: Needle (n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.

Paracorolla :: Paracorolla (n.) A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus..

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..

Secondary :: Secondary (n.) A secondary quill.

Paleola :: Paleola (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

By-law :: By-law (n.) A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside..

Kenogenesis :: Kenogenesis (n.) Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished from palingenesis..

Secondarily :: Secondarily (adv.) In a secondary manner or degree.

Water Gall :: Water gall () A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow..

Accumulator :: Accumulator (n.) An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc..

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

Locellate :: Locellate (a.) Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones..

Predella :: Predella (n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece..

Mediately :: Mediately (adv.) In a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by means; -- opposed to immediately.

Syphilitic :: Syphilis (n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary..

Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary..

Deuterozooid :: Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids..

Tertiary :: Tertiary (a.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary..

Accessory :: Accessory (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music..

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