Sec"ond-class` (?), a. Of the rank or degree below the best or highest;
inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class
passage.
Sec"ond*er (?), n. One who seconds or supports what another attempts,
affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a
motion.
Sec"ond*hand` (?), a. 1. Not original or primary; received from
another.
They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge.
Locke.
2. Not new; already or previously possessed or used by another; as, a
secondhand book, garment.
At second hand. See Hand, n., 10.
Sec"ond*ly, adv. In the second place.
||Se*con"do (s*kn"d; It. s*kn"d), n. [It.] (Mus.) The second part in a
||concerted piece.
Sec"ond-rate` (?), a. Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as,
a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.
Sec"ond-sight` (?), n. The power of discerning what is not visible to
the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a
disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.
He was seized with a fit of second- sight.
Addison.
Nor less availed his optic sleight, And Scottish gift of
second-sight.
Trumbull.
Sec"ond-sight`ed, a. Having the power of second-sight. [R.] Addison.