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Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.

perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.…

an be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

A second branch of a buck's antler. Howell.

The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

ng several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

A second crop or harvest in the same year. Mortimer.

A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. Wotton. Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl.

A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development. J. S. Mill.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

Acting by turns; alternate. Milton. Altern base (Trig.), a second side made base, in distinction from a side previously regarded as base.

members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.

nd fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC

solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampère.

A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.

Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem. D. C. Eaton.