Word Meanings - AFTERCROP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A second crop or harvest in the same year. Mortimer.

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• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• HARVEST-HOME
  1. The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest. Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home. Shak. 2. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. Dryden. 3. A service
• HARVESTRY
  The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested. Swinburne.
• SECONDER
  One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
• SECONDLY
  In the second place.
• HARVESTMAN
  See 1 (more info) 1. A man engaged in harvesting. Shak.
• SECOND-SIGHT
  The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed
• SECOND-SIGHTED
  Having the power of second-sight. Addison.
• HARVEST
  LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. 1. The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn. Seedtime and harvest . . . shall
• SECONDHAND
  1. Not original or primary; received from another. They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge. Locke. 2. Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment. At second hand. See Hand, n., 10.
• HARVESTLESS
  Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. "Harvestless autumns." Tennyson.
• SECONDARY
  Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation , in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary. (more info) 1. Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.;
• SECOND-RATE
  Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.
• HARVESTING
  , from Harvest, v. t. Harvesting ant , any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known. Note: The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are Aphenogaster structor and A. barbara; that of Texas, called
• SECONDARINESS
  The state of being secondary. Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love. Mrs. Oliphant.
• SECONDO
  The second part in a concerted piece.
• SECONDARILY
  1. In a secondary manner or degree. 2. Secondly; in the second place. God hath set some in the church, first apostels, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers. 1 Cor. xii. 28.
• HARVESTER
  A harvesting ant. (more info) 1. One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• THIRTY-SECOND
  Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. Thirty-second note , the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.
• UNSECONDED
  1. Not seconded; not supported, aided, or assisted; as, the motion was unseconded; the attempt was unseconded. 2. Not exemplified a second time. "Strange and unseconded shapes of worms." Sir T. Browne.