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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.

 

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