[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

second \sec"ond\, a. f., fr. l. secundus second, properly,
   following, fr. sequi to follow. see sue to follow, and cf.
   secund.
   1. immediately following the first; next to the first in
      order of place or time; hence, occurring again; another;
      other.
      1913 webster

            and he slept and dreamed the second time. --gen.
                                                  xli. 5.
      1913 webster

   2. next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or
      rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
      1913 webster

            may the day when we become the second people upon
            earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation.
                                                  --landor.
      1913 webster

   3. being of the same kind as another that has preceded;
      another, like a prototype; as, a second cato; a second
      troy; a second deluge.
      1913 webster

            a daniel, still say i, a second daniel --shak.
      1913 webster

   second adventist. see adventist.

   second cousin, the child of a cousin.

   second-cut file. see under file.

   second distance art, that part of a picture between the
      foreground and the background; -- called also middle
      ground, or middle distance. r.

   second estate eng., the house of peers.

   second girl, a female house-servant who does the lighter
      work, as chamber work or waiting on table.

   second intention. see under intention.

   second story, second floor, in america, the second range
      of rooms from the street level. this, in england, is
      called the first floor, the one beneath being the
      ground floor.

   second thought or second thoughts, consideration of a
      matter following a first impulse or impression;
      reconsideration.
      1913 webster

            on second thoughts, gentlemen, i don't wish you had
            known him.                            --dickens.
      1913 webster
see also:
sue secund second adventist adventist second cousin second-cut file 
file second distance middle ground middle distance second estate 
second girl second intention intention second story second floor 
first floor ground floor second thought second thoughts 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

file \file\ fimacl, n. as. fe'ol; akin to d. viji, ohg.
   fimacla, fimachala, g. feile, sw. fil, dan. fiil, cf.
   icel. thorn=el, russ. pila, and skr. pi,c to cut out,
   adorn; perh. akin to e. paint.
   1. a steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made
      by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or
      smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
      1913 webster

   note: a file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made
         by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed,
         while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the
         pyramidal end of a triangular punch.
         1913 webster

   2. anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or
      figuratively.
      1913 webster

            mock the nice touches of the critic's file.
                                                  --akenside.
      1913 webster

   3. a shrewd or artful person. slang --fielding.
      1913 webster

            will is an old file in spite of his smooth face.
                                                  --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   bastard file, cross file, etc. see under bastard,
      cross, etc.

   cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing
      obliquely.

   file blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for
      cutting to form a file.

   file cutter, a maker of files.

   second-cut file, a file having teeth of a grade next finer
      than bastard.

   single-cut file, a file having only one set of parallel
      teeth; a float.

   smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to make an
      almost smooth surface.
      1913 webster
see also:
bastard file cross file bastard cross cross-cut file file blank 
file cutter second-cut file single-cut file smooth file 

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