资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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, occuring again; another;
other.
And he slept and dreamed the second time. --Gen.
xli. 5.
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.
--Landor.
3. Being of the same kind as another that has preceded;
another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy;
a second deluge.
A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! --Shak.
{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}, {Story 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 thoughts}, consideration of a matter
following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration.
On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had
known him. --Dickens.