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he pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.

measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.

, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand. In 1678 came forth a second edition [Pilgrim's Progress] with additions; and the demand became immense. Macaulay.

A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.

t radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found in some parts of the body, in which the arteries empty directly into the veins without the interposition of…

Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.

One who marries the second time.

A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.

Second sight. I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye. Sir W. Scott.

One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

A prefix which formerly properly indicated the second in a regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition, but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi- or di-, although little used.

A mark consisting of two dots [..], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, coöperate, aërial.

Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.

One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist. Hammond.

Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.

In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.

To discharge; to explode. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.

To do one shame, to cause one shame. [Obs.] -- To do over. (a) To make over; to perform a second time. (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. "Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin." De Foe. -- To do to death, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.] -- To do up. (a) To put up; to raise. […