Word Meanings - AFTERGROWTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A second growth or crop, or development. J. S. Mill.
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- SECOND
1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, - DEVELOPMENT
The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another - SECOND-CLASS
Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage. - SECONDER
One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion. - SECONDLY
In the second place. - SECOND-SIGHT
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. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed - DEVELOPMENTAL
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter. - GROWTHEAD
A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser. - SECOND-SIGHTED
Having the power of second-sight. Addison. - SECONDHAND
1. Not original or primary; received from another. They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge. Locke. 2. Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment. At second hand. See Hand, n., 10. - SECONDARY
Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation , in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary. (more info) 1. Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; - GROWTH
1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; - GROWTHFUL
Having capacity of growth. J. Hamilton. - SECOND-RATE
Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden. - SECONDARINESS
The state of being secondary. Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love. Mrs. Oliphant. - SECONDO
The second part in a concerted piece. - SECONDARILY
1. In a secondary manner or degree. 2. Secondly; in the second place. God hath set some in the church, first apostels, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers. 1 Cor. xii. 28. - MISGROWTH
Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth. - NONDEVELOPMENT
Failure or lack of development. - INGROWTH
A growth or development inward. J. LeConte. - OUTGROWTH
That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence. - AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used. - UPGROWTH
The process or result of growing up; progress; development. The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy. J. R. Green. - THIRTY-SECOND
Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. Thirty-second note , the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.