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Secondary
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.
(2):
(a.) Subsequent in origin; - said of minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.
(3):
(n.) A satellite.
(4):
(a.) Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
(5):
(a.) Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.
(6):
(a.) Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary.
(7):
(a.) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
(8):
(a.) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.
(9):
(n.) A secondary quill.
(10):
(n.) A secondary circle.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Secondary'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/secondary.html. 1828.
