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Second [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That immediately follows the first; the mext following the first in order of place or time; the ordinal of two. Take the second book from the shelf. Enter the second house.

2. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. 41.

3. Next in value, power, excellence, dignity or rank; inferior. The silks of China are second to none. Lord Chatham was second to none in eloquence. Dr. Johnson was second to none in itellecual powers, but second to many in research and erudition.

4. Second terms , in algebra , those where the unknown quantity has a degree of power less than it has in the term where it is raised to the highest.

5. At second-hand , in the sicond place of order; not in first place, orby or from the first; by transmission; not primarily; not originally; as a report received at second hand .

6. In imitation of preachers at second hand , I shall transcribe from Bruyere a piece of raillery. Tatler .

Second [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who attends another in a duel, to aid him, mark out the ground or destance, and see that all proceedings between the parties are fair.

2. One that supports or maintains another; that which supports

3. Being sure enough of seconds after the first onset. Wotton .

4. The sixtieth part of a minute or of a degree, that is, the second minute or small division next to the hour. Sound moves above 1140 English feet in a second .

5. In music, an interval of a conjoint degree, being the difference between any sound and the next nearest sound above ar below it.

Second [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To follow in the next place.

2. Sin is seconded with sin. [ Little used .] South .

3. To support; to lend aid to the attempt of another; to assist' to forward; to promote; to encourage; to act as the maintainer.

4. We have supplies to second our attempt. Shak .

5. The attempts of Austria to circumscribe the conquests of Buonaparte, were seconded by Russia. Anon .

6. In God's, one single can its end produce,

7. Yet serves second too some other use. Pope .

8. In legislation , to support, as a motion or the mover. We say, to second a motion or proposition, or to second the mover.

Second [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.

3. Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge.

4. The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place.

5. In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8.

6. To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.

7. To follow or attend for the purpose of assisting; to support; to back; to act as the second of; to assist; to forward; to encourage.

8. Specifically, to support, as a motion or proposal, by adding one's voice to that of the mover or proposer.

Second [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power.

2. One who follows or attends another for his support and aid; a backer; an assistant; specifically, one who acts as another's aid in a duel.

3. Aid; assistance; help.

4. An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

5. The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.

6. The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.

Second-class [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.

Second-hand [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. .

2. Not original or primary; received from another.

3. The have but a second-hand or implicit knowledge. Locke .

4. Not new; that has been used by another; as a second-hand book.

Second-hand [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. Possession received from the first possessor.

Second-rate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. Of the second size, rank, quality or value; as a second-rate ship; a second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.

Second-rate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. . [ second and rate .] The second order in size, dignity, or value.

2. They call it thunder of the second-rate . Addison .

3. So we say, a ship of the second-rate .

Second-rate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.

Second-sight [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. . The power of seeing things future or distant; a power claimed by some of the highlanders in Scotland.

2. Nor less avail'd his optic sleight,

3. And Scottish gift of second-sight . Trubbull's M'Fingal .

Second-sight [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.

Second-sighted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. Having the power of second-sight.

Second-sighted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the power of second-sight.

Secondaries [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Secondary

Secondarily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. [from secondary .] In second degree or second order; not primarily or originally; not the first intention. Duties on imports serve primarily to raise a revenue, and secondarily to encourage domestic manufactures and industry.

Secondarily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. In a secondary manner or degree.

2. Secondly; in the second place.

Secondariness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. The state of being secondary.

Secondariness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being secondary.

Secondary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. . [ L . secundarius , from secundus .]

2. Succeeding next in order to the first; subordinate.

3. Where there is moral right on the one hand, not secondary right can discharge it.

4. L' Estrange .

5. Not primary; not of the first intention.

6. Two are racial differences; the secondary differences are as four. Bacon .

7. Not of the first order or rate; revolving about a primary planet. Primary planets revolve about the sun; secondary planets revolve about the primary.

8. Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as the work of secondary hands.

9. Acting in subordination, or second to another; as a secondary officer.

10. Secondary rocks , in geology, are those which were formed after the primary. they are always situated over or above the primitive and transition rocks; they abound with organic remains or petrifications, and are supposed to be mechanical deposits from water. Cleaveland .

11. A secondary fever , is that which arises after a crisis, or the discharge of some morbid matter, as after the declension of the small pox or measles. Quincy .

12. Secondary circles , or secondaries , in astronomy, circles passing through the poles of any of the great circles of the sphere, perpendicular to the planes of those circles.

13. Secondary qualities , are the qualities of bodies which are not inseparable from them, but which is proceed from casual circumstances, such as color, taste, odor, etc.

14. Secondary formations , in geology, formations of substances, subsequent to the primitive.

Secondary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. .

2. A delegate or deputy; one who acts in subordination to another; as the secondaries of the court of king's bench and common pleas.

3. A fether growing on the second bone of a fowl's wing.

Secondary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

2. Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.

3. 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.

4. Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.

5. Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.

6. Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.

Secondary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.

2. A secondary circle.

3. A satellite.

4. A secondary quill.

Seconded [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Supported; aided.

Seconded [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Second

Seconder [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that supported what another attempts, or what he affirms, or hat he moves or proposes; as the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.

Seconder [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.

Secondhand [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Not original or primary; received from another.

2. Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment.

Seconding [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Second

Secondly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. In the second place.

Secondly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In the second place.

Secondo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The second part in a concerted piece.

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Genesis 1:8

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

Genesis 2:13

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

Genesis 6:16

A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 8:14

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

Genesis 22:15

And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,

Genesis 30:7

And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.

And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

Genesis 30:12

And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.

When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

Genesis 32:19

And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.

Genesis 41:5

And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.

Genesis 41:43

And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, with men calling out before him, “Bow the knee!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:52

And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 43:10

For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

If we had not delayed, we could have come and gone twice by now.”

Genesis 47:18

When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

Exodus 2:13

And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”

Exodus 4:8

And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

And the LORD said, “If they refuse to believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe that of the second.

Exodus 16:1

And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.

Exodus 25:35

And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.

For the six branches that extend from the lampstand, a bud must be under the first pair of branches, a bud under the second pair, and a bud under the third pair.

Exodus 26:4

And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

Make loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the end curtain in the second set.

Exodus 26:5

Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.

Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the loops line up opposite one another.