Word Meanings - READDRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To address a second time; -- often used reflexively. He readdressed himself to her. Boyle.

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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,
• BOYLE'S LAW
  See LAW
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• 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.
• 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
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• SECOND-SIGHTED
  Having the power of second-sight. Addison.
• HIMSELF
  1. An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.
• ADDRESSEE
  One to whom anything is addressed.
• 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.
• SECOND-RATE
  Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.
• HIMSELF; HIMSELVE; HIMSELVEN
  Themselves. See Hemself. Chaucer.
• OFTENSITH
  Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.
• OFTENTIMES
  Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.
• SECONDARINESS
  The state of being secondary. Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love. Mrs. Oliphant.
• 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.;
• ADDRESSION
  The act of addressing or directing one's course. Chapman.
• 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.
• HEADDRESS
  1. A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire. Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison. 2. A manner of dressing the hair or
• UNOFTEN
  Not often.
• 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.