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Semidemiquaver :: Semidemiquaver (n.) A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.

Triolet :: Triolet (n.) A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth..

Recoction :: Recoction (n.) A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.

Whether :: Whether (conj.) In case; if; -- used to introduce the first or two or more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by or, or by or whether. When the second of two alternatives is the simple negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by the particle not or no after the correlative, and sometimes it is omitted entirely as being distinctly implied in the whether of the first..

Bay-antler :: Bay-antler (n.) The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.

Trapezoid :: Trapezoid (n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the second metacarpal, or index finger..

Lever :: Lever (n.) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; -- used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mecha

Reseize :: Reseize (v. t.) To seize again, or a second time..

Postentry :: Postentry (n.) A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake..

Reattachment :: Reattachment (n.) The act of reattaching; a second attachment.

Tres-tyne :: Tres-tyne (n.) In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under Rucervine, and under Rusine..

Secondaries :: Secondaries (pl. ) of Secondar.

Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) The second stomach of a ruminating animal.

Marcionite :: Marcionite (n.) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation..

Scutum :: Scutum (n.) The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.

Rattoon :: Rattoon (n.) One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane..

Refortification :: Refortification (n.) A fortifying anew, or a second time..

Unseconded :: Unseconded (a.) Not seconded; not supported, aided, or assisted; as, the motion was unseconded; the attempt was unseconded..

Secondly :: Secondly (adv.) In the second place.

Alternate :: Alternate (a.) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line..

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