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A century. [Obs.] Hammond.

ing in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis. Secondary accent. See the Note under Accent, n., 1. -- Secondary age. (Geol.) The Mesozoic age, or age before the Tertiary. See Mesozoic, and Note under Age, n., 8. -- Secondary alcohol (Chem.), any one of a series of alcohols which contain…

nts, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.

Coming or observed once in an age or a century. The secular year was kept but once a century. Addison.

tivelly; to look after. Shak. I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care for centradicting him. Addison.

One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments. A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers. Bullokar.

d yolk, from which results unequal segmentation. See Holoblastic, Meroblastic, Alecithal, Centrolecithal, Ectolecithal, and Ovum. -- Segmentation sphere (Biol.), the blastosphere, or morula. See Morula.

To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification.

Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.

y an earthquake. Seismic vertical, the point upon the earth's surface vertically over the center of effort or focal point whence the earthquake's impulse proceeds, or the vertical line connecting these two points.

As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central.

Centered in itself, or in one's self. There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved. Dryden.

Centering in one's self.

The quality or state of being self-centered.

sty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century. J. H. Newman.

Of or pertaining to half of a century, or a period of fifty years; as, a semicentennial commemoration.

Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.

A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the…

The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system,…