seconde (sekond)

[F., We'll go through the whole exercise: carte, tierce, and sego on. Colman, Jealous Wife, iv. II. n. A secret, or secrets collectively; a matter or matters of secrecy. This false theef, this so mon our, quod the frere, Hadde alwey bawdes redy to his hond As any hauk to lure in Engelond, That tolde hym al the secree that they knewe. Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 41. Secretly. IMG:content-0477.png:[blocks in formation] In dreadful secrecy impart they did. Shak ., Hamlet, i. 2. 207. Most surprising things having been managed and brought about by them [the Turks), in Cairo, with the utmost policy and secrecy . Pococke , Description of the East, I. 178. seconder (sek'un-dėr), n. [ second1 + -er1.] One who seconds; one who approves and sup- ports what another attempts, affirms, or pro- poses: as, the seconder of a motion. second-hand1 (sek'und-hand), a. and n. [ second hand , in the phrase at second hand (which 2. Privacy; retirement; seclusion; solitude. see, under hand ).] I. a. 1. Received from another or a previous owner or user. (a) Not original. Some men build so much upon authorities they have but a second - hand or implicit knowledge. Locke. Those manners next That fit us like a nature second -hand; Which are indeed the manners of the great. Tennyson, Walking to the Mail. (b) Not new; having been used or worn: as, a second - hand book; second - hand clothes. My bricks, being second-hand ones, required to be Thoreau, Walden, p. 259. 2. A thing which is of second or secondary position or importance, or is dependent on a primary: said of circles, planets, etc. A man's wages, to prevent pauperism, should include, besides present subsistence, what Dr. Chalmers has called his secondaries . Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 265. Specifically-3. A secondary remex or flight feather; one of the large quills of a bird's wing which are seated on the forearm, and intervene between the primaries and the tertiaries. They vary in number from six (in humming-birds) to forty or more (in albatro es). See cuts under bird and covert .-4. In entom ., one of the posterior or hind wings of an insect, especially of a butterfly or moth. See cut under Cirrophanus . 5. [ cap.] In geol., that part of the series of fo iliferous formations which lies between the Primary or Paleozoic and the Tertiary or Cenozoic. Same as Mesozoic, a word introduced by John Phillips after Paleozoic had become current. Paleozoic and Mesozoic are now terms in general use; but Cænozoic, corresponding to Tertiary, is much le common. Secondary as at present used by geologists has a quite different meaning from that which it originally had when introduced by Lehmann, about the middle of the eighteenth century. According to his cla ification, all rocks were divided into primitive, secondary, and alluvial. This cla ification was improved by Werner, who intercalated a "Transition series" between the primary and the secondary. See Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Tertiary, and Transition. 6. In meteor., a subsidiary cyclonic circulation, generally on the border of a primary cyclone, accompanied by rain, thunder-storms, and IMG:content-0478.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Dealing in second-hand goods: as, a second hand bookseller. To point out, in the first instance, the particulars of the greatest of the Second Hand trades - that in Clothing. Mayhew , London Labour,and London Poor, II. 526. Second-hand witne , a witne who can give only hearsay evidence. II. n. Matter derived from previous users. I expected to find some hints in the good second - hand of a respectable clerical publication. De Morgan, Budget of Paradoxes, p. 217. second-hand2 (sek'und-hand), n . [ second2 + hand.] A hand for marking seconds on a clock or watch.