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Reprint :: Reprint (v. t.) To print again; to print a second or a new edition of.

Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..

Reelection :: Reelection (n.) Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief..

Readjournment :: Readjournment (n.) The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.

Predella :: Predella (n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece..

Second :: Second (a.) In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8..

Reseizure :: Reseizure (n.) A second seizure; the act of seizing again.

Bull :: Bull (n.) Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac..

Rider :: Rider (n.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.

Axis :: Axis (n.) The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata..

Derivative :: Derivative (a.) Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word..

Directly :: Directly (adv.) In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means..

Velocity :: Velocity (n.) Rate of motion; the relation of motion to time, measured by the number of units of space passed over by a moving body or point in a unit of time, usually the number of feet passed over in a second. See the Note under Speed..

Adventist :: Adventist (n.) One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists..

Consul :: Consul (n.) One of the three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804, who were called, respectively, first, second, and third consul..

Aftermath :: Aftermath (n.) A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.

Fate :: Fate (n.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread..

Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..

Scamillus :: Scamillus (n.) A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal..

Seal :: Seal (v. t.) Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife..

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