'Second distance' definitions:
Definition of 'Second distance'
From: GCIDE
- 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]