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to shut up apart; to exclude.—Some parts of knowledge 
God has thought fit to seclude from us, to fence them not 
only, as he did the interdicted tree, by combination, but 
with difficulties and impossibilities. Dec. of Chr. Piety. — 
Inclose your tender plants in your conservatory, secluding 
all entrance of cold. Evelyn. 
SECLU'SION, s. [ seclusus , Lat.] A shutting in or out. 
Coles, Diet. 1685. Separation; exclusion or inclusion.— 
Their women appear to have been devoted to a state of se¬ 
clusion. War ton. 
SECO, a village of Kaarta, in Central Africa; 65 miles 
east of Kemmoo. 
SECO, a river of the Caraccas, in the province of Vene¬ 
zuela, which enters the sea in the little gulf of Coro. 
SECO, a river of South America, in the province of Tu- 
cuman, which runs east, and enters the Rio Dulce or del 
Estero. 
SECO, a river of St. Domingo, which rises near the south 
coast, and enters the sea, between the river Gugua and Mount 
Chico. 
SECO, San Salvador De, a settlement of Mexico, in 
the province of Tepeaca ; 8 leagues north-east of Tepeaca. 
SECOMILiE, in Natural History, the name of a genus of 
fossils, of the class of the septaria:; the characters of which 
are, that they are bodies of a dusky hue, divided by septa, 
or partitions of a sparry matter, into several more or less 
regular portions, of a moderately firm texture, not giving 
fire with steel, but fermenting with acid menstrua, and easily 
calcining. 
SECOND, ad). [second, Fr., secundus , Lat. “ It is 
observable, that the English have no ordinal of two, as the 
Latins and the nations deriving from them have none of duo. 
What the Latins call secundus, from sequor, the Saxons 
term o'Sep, or aeptepa.” Johnson .]—The next in order to 
the first; the ordinal of two. 
Sunk were their hearts with horror of the crime, 
Nor needed to be warn’d a second time, 
But bore each other back. Dry den. 
Next in value or dignity; inferior. 
None I know 
Second to me, or like; equal much less. Milton. 
SECOND-HAND, s. Possession received from the first 
possessor. —Second-hand is sometimes used adjectively. 
Not original; not primary.—Some men build so much upon 
authorities, they have but a second-hand or implicit know¬ 
ledge. Locke. 
At SECOND-HAND, adv. In imitation; in the second 
place of order; by transmission; not primarily; not origi¬ 
nally.—They pelted them with satyrs and epigrams, which 
perhaps had been taken up at first only to make their court, 
and at second-hand to flatter those who had flattered their 
king. Temple. 
SECOND, s. [second, Fr.] One who accompanies an¬ 
other in a duel to direct or defend him.—Their first encoun¬ 
ters were very furious, till after some toil and bloodshed they 
were parted by the seconds. Addison .—One who supports 
or maintains; a supporter; a maintainer.—Courage, when 
it is only a second to injustice, and falls on without provo¬ 
cation, is a disadvantage to a character. Collier .—A second 
minute, the second division of an hour by sixty; the sixtieth 
part of a minute.—Sounds move above 1140 English feet in 
a second minute of time, and in seven or eight minutes of 
time about 100 English miles. Locke. 
A degree, and an hour, are each divided into sixty 
minutes, marked thus'; a minute is subdivided into sixty 
seconds, marked thus"; a second into sixty thirds, marked 
thus&c. 
SECOND, in Music, denotes one of the musical intervals; 
being only the distance between any sound, and the next 
sound, whether higher or lower. 
To SECOND, v. a. To support; to forward; to assist; 
to come in after the act as a maintainer. 
Though we here fall down. 
We have supplies to second our attempt; 
If they miscarry, theirs shall second them. Shakspeare. 
To follow in the next place. 
He saw his guileful act 
By Eve, though all unweeting, seconded 
Upon her husband. Milton. 
Sin is seconded with sin; and a man seldom commits one 
sin to please, but he commits another to defend himself. 
South. 
SECOND SIGHT, s. A superstition that prevailed 
among the Scotch islanders: the parties gifted with this se¬ 
cond sight were said to have the power of seeing things fu¬ 
ture, or things distant.—As he was going out to steal a sheep, 
he was seized with a fit of second sight: the face of the 
country presented him with a wide prospect of new scenes, 
which he had never seen before. Addison. 
The quality of second-sight, they say, is not heredi¬ 
tary; the person who has it cannot exert it at pleasure ; nor 
can he prevent it, or communicate it to another; but it 
comes on him involuntarily, and exercises itself on him arbi¬ 
trarily ; and often, especially in the younger second seers, to 
their great trouble and terror. 
There are a great number of circumstances said to attend 
these visions; by observation of which, the particular cir¬ 
cumstances, as to time, place, &c., of the death of the 
person, &c., are learnt. The method of judging of them, 
or interpreting them, grows into a kind of art; which is 
very different in different persons. Second sightedness is 
held a discredit in the country; so that none, they say, will 
counterfeit it; but that many conceal and dissemble it. 
See Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. 
p. 248, &c. 
SE'COND-SIGHTED, ad). Having the second sight. 
—Sawney was descended of an ancient family, renowned 
for their skill in prognostics: most of his ancestors were se¬ 
cond-sighted, and his mother but narrowly escaped for a 
witch. Addison. 
SECOND, Point, a cape on the east coast of Sumatra, 
in the straits of Banca. Lat. 2. 12. S. long. 105. 4S. E. 
SE'CONDARILY, adv. In the second degree; in the 
second order ; not primarily; not originally ; not in the first 
intention.—These atoms make the wind primarily tend 
downwards, though other accidental causes impel them se¬ 
condarily to a sloping motion. Digby. 
SE'CONDARINESS, s. The state of being secondary. 
—That which is peculiar and discriminative must be taken 
from the primariness and secondarincss of the perception. 
Norris. 
SE'CONDARY, a cl), [secondaire, old Fr., secundarius, 
Lat.] Not primary.—Two are the radical differences: the 
secondary differences are as four. Bacon. —Succeeding to 
the first; subordinate.—Gravitation is the powerful cement 
which holds together this magnificent structure of the world, 
which stretcheth the North over the empty space, and hang- 
eth the earth upon nothing, to transfer the words of Job from 
the first and real cause to the secondary. Bentley .—Not 
of the first order or rate.—If the system had been fortuitously 
formed by the convening matter of a chaos, how is it con¬ 
ceivable that all the planets, both primary and secondary, 
should revolve the same way from the West to the East, and 
that in the same plane ? Bentley .—Acting by transmission 
or deputation. 
That we were form’d then, say’st thou? and the work 
Of secondary hands, by task transferr’d 
From father to his son ? Milton. 
SE'CONDARY, s. A delegate; a deputy.—It was ta¬ 
citly understood, and was very proper in itself, that these 
secondaries [ushers of a school] were not to be greedy in 
engrossing the rarities, when strangers, which often hap¬ 
pened, were at dinner. Wakefeld. 
SE'CONDER, s. One who supports or maintains the 
proposition or assertion made by another.—I do not tell the 
respectable 
