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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Second \Sec"ond\, a. [F., fr. L. secundus second, properly, following, fr. sequi to follow. See Sue to follow, and cf. Secund.] 1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occurring again; another; other. [1913 Webster] And he slept and dreamed the second time. --Gen. xli. 5. [1913 Webster] 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. [1913 Webster] May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation. --Landor. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. --Dickens. [1913 Webster] | ||
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
File \File\ (f[imac]l), n. [AS. fe['o]l; akin to D. viji, OHG. f[imac]la, f[imac]hala, G. feile, Sw. fil, Dan. fiil, cf. Icel. [thorn][=e]l, Russ. pila, and Skr. pi[,c] to cut out, adorn; perh. akin to E. paint.] 1. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc. [1913 Webster] Note: A file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed, while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the pyramidal end of a triangular punch. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. [1913 Webster] Mock the nice touches of the critic's file. --Akenside. [1913 Webster] 3. A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] --Fielding. [1913 Webster] Will is an old file in spite of his smooth face. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See under Bastard, Cross, etc. Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. File cutter, a maker of files. Second-cut file, a file having teeth of a grade next finer than bastard. Single-cut file, a file having only one set of parallel teeth; a float. Smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to make an almost smooth surface. [1913 Webster] | ||
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