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/sˈɛkənd θɔt/ Listen

adjective

Second adj.

1.

Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occurring again; another; other. "And he slept and dreamed the second time."

2.

Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. "May the day when we become the second people upon earth... be the day of our utter extirpation."

3.

Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a prototype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge. "A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!"

Second Adventist. See Adventist.

Second cousin, the child of a cousin.

Second-cut file. See under File.

Second distance (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; called also middle ground, or middle distance. (R.)

Second estate (Eng.), the House of Peers.

Second girl, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table.

Second intention. See under Intention.

Second story, Second floor, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the first floor, the one beneath being the ground floor.

Second thought or Second thoughts, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration. "On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him."

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"Second thought" Quotes from Famous Books

... had to confess himself fearfully uneasy about his own financial arrangements. That was the rub. Wallace Carpenter had been sincere enough in his informal striking of partnership, but had he retained his enthusiasm? Had second thought convicted him of folly? Had conservative business friends dissuaded him? Had the glow faded in the reality of his accustomed life? And even if his good-will remained unimpaired, would he be able, at such short notice, to raise so large a sum? Would he realize from ...

— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White

... to refuse the other's company. He felt that Fret had already done him harm enough, and that his presence would be a positive injury to him. But upon second thought he became more generous. In spite of all Fret had done against him he could not help pitying the young fellow now in his forlorn condition, and ...

— Jack North's Treasure Hunt - Daring Adventures in South America • Roy Rockwood

... engage your attention with a description of the villain, but on second thought I have decided that it would be rather unfair. For at that moment he was at a disadvantage. Nature was punishing him for a few shortcomings. The steward that night informed Warburton, in answer to his ...

— The Man on the Box • Harold MacGrath

... that was enough to satisfy him that his worst fears were to be realized. The talk about thirty thousand dollars, and the guardian, was as unintelligible to him as though it had been in ancient Greek, and he did not bestow a second thought upon it. The "boy like him," to whom thirty thousand dollars would be a great deal of money, meant some other person than himself. The court was Noddy's peculiar abomination; and when he heard the words, he clutched the sash of the ...

— Work and Win - or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise • Oliver Optic

... resentment grew against Radisson; for was it not he who had revealed the secrets of the great Bay to marauding Frenchmen? Sargeant was sued in L20,000 damages for surrendering Albany; but on second thought, the case was settled by arbitration, and the doughty old trader was awarded L350. Jean Chouart and the other Frenchmen came back to London in 1689, and Jean was awarded L202 for all arrears. Also, about this time, the Company began trade with North ...

— The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay - A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) • Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

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