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One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.

in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. See Hollow newel, under Hollow.

An interval containing an octave and a second.

A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied…

held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.

Having a nucleole, or second inner nucleus.

omatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.

of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness. Second childishness and mere oblivion. Shak. Among our crimes oblivion may be set. Dryden The origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion. W. Irving.

pposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap.

Of or pertaining to the occipital bone and second vertebra, or axis.

-- Odontoid process, or Odontoid peg (Anat.), the anterior process of the centrum of the second vertebra, or axis, in birds and mammals. See Axis.

Second-rate; inferior; small. [Slang, U.S.]

A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.

One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.

Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.

An aneroid barometer having a second scale that gives the approximate elevation above sea level of the place where the observation is made.

that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two. Each of them made other for to win. Chaucer. Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matt. v. 39.

g operations: First stroke, suction into cylinder of explosive charge, as of gas and air; second stroke, compression, ignition, and explosion of this charge; third stroke (the working stroke), expansion of the gases; fourth stroke, expulsion of the products of combustion from the cylinder. This is the cycle invented by…

A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

h has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.