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(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Secondary'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/secondary.html. 1828.
 
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