secondary (sekundari)

and n. [Early mod. E. secondarie, secundarie, Qualities calde elementarie, Knowne by the names of first & secundarie . Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 117. The supreme power can never be said to be lodged in the original body of electors, but rather in those a emblies of secondary or tertiary electors who chose the representative. Brougham . Hence-2. Subordinate; inferior. The work Of secondary hands by task transferr'd From Father to his Son. Milton , P. L., ν. 854. alents of an alcoholic radical for two of hydrogen. - Secondary alcohol. See alcohol, 3.- Secondary amputation, amputation of a limb, etc., performed after inflammatory complication or suppuration has set in. - Seconulum, in bot., one of the six smaller cells borne by each dary battery, in elect. See battery. - Secondary cap it of the eight capitula in the antheridium of the Characeæ. -Secondary cause, a partial cause producing a small aids the principal cause to produce the effect, as a pro part of the effect; also, a le principal cause; one which egumenal or proc at arc tical cause, or an instrument. - Secondary caustic. See caustic. Secondary charge, in her., a small charge of which a number are borne upon the field, originally as a mark of cadency and not of the ally decreased in number, sometimes to six or even fewer; achievement of the head of the family: these have gener tricity pa ing through the same or a contiguous circuit at the beginning and also at the end of the pa age of the primitive current. - Secondary deviation, dial. See the nouns.- Secondary education. See education, 1. within the embryo-sac of gymnosperms within which - Secondary embryo-sacs, in bot., certain chambers the female elements are directly developed. See corpuscle, 3.- Secondary end. See def. 1.- Secondary enlargement (of mineral fragments), the growth of grains of quartz, feldspar, hornblende, etc., as in a fragmental rock, by gradual deposition of the material about the original fragment, the newer parts (secondary quartz, etc.) ordinarily having the same crystallographic orientation as the old in this way complete quartz-crystals are sometimes formed from rounded grains in a sandstone. - Sec ondary evidence. See evidence. - Secondary fever, a febrile condition which recurs in certain affections, as in the maturation of smallpox. - Secondary hemorrhage, hemorrhage occurring several days after a wound or operation.-Secondary liber, in bot., liber formed on the outer face of a liber-bundle.- Secondary linkage, meridian, motion. See the nouns. - Secondary mycelium, in bot., certain rhizoid attachments developed from the base of a sporophore, which are somewhat like the normal mycelium of the species. De Bary. - Secondary plane, in crystal., any plane on a crystal which is not one of the primary planes. - Secondary planet. See planet, 1.- Secondary prothallium, in bot., the supplementary or second prothallium developed from the mucilaginous protoplasm which fills the basal part of the macrospore in the Selaginelleæ. It is frequently separated from the secondary true prothallium by a diaphragm. The secondary prothallium is called the endosperm by some writers. - Secondary pulse-wave. See pulse -wave. - Secondary qualities. (a) In the Aristo tel i an philos., derived qualities of bodies: that is to say, all except hot and cold, wet and dry, which are the primary qualities of the elements-fire, earth, water, and air. The secondary qualities are properly fourteen in number-namely, heavy and light, dense and rare, thick and thin, hard and soft, sticky and friable, rough and smooth, coherent and slippery. Color, smell, and taste are also secondary qualities. (b) In modern philos., since Galileo (who in 1623 calls the qualities known as primary "primi accident i ") and Boyle (who in 1666 uses the term "secondary qualities, if I may so call them," in precisely the modern signification), affections of bodies; affective, patible, sensible qualities; imputed qualities; qualities of bodies relative to the organs of sense, as color, taste, smell, etc.: opposed to those characters (called primary qualities, though properly speaking they are not qualities at all) which we cannot imagine bodies as wanting. Sometimes called secondary properties. Such qualities-which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, i. e. by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, etc. - these I call secondary qualities . Locke , Human Understanding, II. viii. § 10. Secondary queen-posts. See queen -post. - Secondary redistribution, a redistribution among the parts of an animal body and among the relative motions of the parts; an alteration of structure or function going on within the body. Secondary root, in bot. See root1. - Secondary sexual characters. See sexual. - Secondary spores, in bot., slender branches produced upon the promycelium of certain fungi, as Tilletia caries, which give rise to small sporidia. They are the same as the sporidia of De Bary. Secondary stems, in bot., branches; the ramifications of the stem. - Secondary strata, in geol., the Mesozoic strata. See Mesozoic.- Secondary syphilis. See syphilis. Secondary tints, in painting, tints of a subdued kind, such as grays. - Secondary tone, in mи sic, same as harmonic Secondary truth, ins a tive truth. Secondary use. Secondary wood, in bot., wood formed on the inner face of a liber bundle. II. n.; pl. secondaries (-riz). 1. A delegate or deputy; one who acts in subordination to another; one who occupies a subordinate or inferior position; specifically, a cathedral dignitary of the second rank, such as a minor canon, precentor, singing clerk, etc. The application of the title varies in different cathedrals. I am too high-born to be propertied, To be a secondary at control. IMG:content-0476.png:[blocks in formation] Item -I give unto my wife my second - best bed, with the seconic (sē-kon'ik), n. A conic section. Cayley. furniture. Shak ., Last Will and Testament (Life, xiii., Knight), secoundelyt, adv . A Middle English form of I come into the second - best parlour after breakfast with my books... and a slate. Dickens , David Copper field, iv. secondly. secret, secreet, a. and n. [ME., E. secret: see secret.] I. a. Secret. Bote vndur his secre seal Treuthe sende a lettre, And bad hem bugge boldely what hem best lykede. Piers Plowman (A), viii. 25. Be not wroth, though I the ofte praye To holden secre swich an heigh matere. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 286. of publication. second-cut (sek'und-kut), a. In hardware, noting files of a grade between bastard files and smooth files.