To follow up; supplement.

To support; aid; forward; promote; back, or back up; specifically, to assist in a duel.

In music, to sing second to.

In legislative and deliberative bodies, public meetings, etc., formally to express approval and support of (a motion, amendment, or proposal), as a preliminary to further discussion or to formal adoption.

In the British Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, to put into temporary retirement, as an officer when he accepts civil employment under the crown.

noun. The sixtieth part of a minute.

Next after the first in order, place, time, rank, value, quality, etc.: an ordinal numeral: as, the second day of the month; the second volume of a book; the second auditor of the treasury; the second table of the law.

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Secondary; not primary; subordinate; in music, lower in pitch, or rendering a part lower in pitch: as, second fiddle; second soprano.

Other; another: as, a second Daniel; his second self.

Favorable; helpful; aiding or disposed to aid.

In mathematics, noting a function derived from the performance of the same operation twice in succession: thus, the second difference is the difference of the difference; so second differentials, derivatives, differential coefficients, etc.

In the two-handed sword, or spadone, a pair of hooks or projections slightly curved toward the point. forged with the blade itself, and separating the heel from the sharpened part of the blade. See spadone.

In rapiers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the outer defense beyond the Cross-guard, formed of a ring surrounding the blade, a cross, pair of shells, or the like.

noun. The one next after the first in order, place, time, rank, value, quality, or importance; that one of any two considered relatively which follows or comes immediately after the other.

noun. In music:

noun. A tone on the next or second diatonic degree above or below a given tone; the next tone in a diatonic series.

noun. The interval between any tone and a tone on the next degree above or below.

noun. The harmonic combination of two tones at the interval thus described.

noun. In a scale, the second tone from the bottom: solmizated re.

noun. A second voice or instrument—that is, one whose part is subordinate to or lower than another of the same kind; specifically, a second violin or second soprano; popularly, an alto.

noun. Same as secondo.

noun. pl, That which is of second grade or quality; hence, any inferior or baser matter.

noun. Specifically

noun. A coarse kind of fiour, or the bread made from it.

noun. Acetic acid made from acetate of lime.

noun. In base-ball, same as second base. See baseball.

noun. Another; another person; an inferior.

noun. One who assists and supports another; specifically, one who attends a principal in a duel or a pugilistic encounter, to advise or aid him, and see that all proceedings between the combatants are fair, and in accordance with the rules laid down for the duel or the prizering.

noun. Aid; help; assistance.

transitive verb. To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.

transitive verb. To follow or attend for the purpose of assisting; to support; to back; to act as the second of; to assist; to forward; to encourage.

transitive verb. to support, as a motion{6} or proposal, by adding one's voice to that of the mover or proposer.

noun. One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power.

noun. One who follows or attends another for his support and aid; a backer; an assistant; specifically, one who acts as another's aid in a duel.

noun. Aid; assistance; help.

noun. An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

noun. The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree

noun. In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8.

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noun. The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.

noun. The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.

noun. A motion in support of another motion which has been moved in a deliberative body.

noun. the hand which marks the seconds on the dial of a watch or a clock.

adjective. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occurring again; another; other.

adjective. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.

adjective. Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a prototype.

adjective. See Adventist.

adjective. the child of a cousin.

adjective. See under File.