second
/ˈsɛk.ənd/ adjective A1- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two. · He lives on Second Street.· He became the second player to hit 50000 runs for his county.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. · His job is second priority, because his family is the most important thing in his life.
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another. · Residents of Texas prepared for Hurricane Harvey, which would in some ways turn out to become the second Hurricane Katrina.
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“I will take the first share,” he said, “because I am King: and the second share, as a partner with you in the chase: and the third share (believe me) will be a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and set off as fast as you can.”
This second signature explained everything to Franz, who now understood the objection of the messenger to coming up into the apartment; the street was safer for him.
And when the second eye was done I could see much better than before.
“Just the person we require at a time like the present,” said a second.
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