Wheresoever there is normal right on the one hand,
no secondary right can discharge it. --L'Estrange.
Two are the radical differences; the secondary
differences are as four. --Bacon.
2. Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work
of secondary hands.
3. (Chem.) 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}.
4. (Min.) 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.
5. (Zo["o]l.) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a
bird.
6. (Med.) 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.
{Secondary accent}. See the Note under {Accent}, n., 1.
{Secondary age}. (Geol.) The Mesozoic age, or age before the
Tertiary. See {Mesozoic}, and Note under {Age}, n., 8.
{Secondary alcohol} (Chem.), any one of a series of alcohols
which contain the radical {CH.OH} united with two
hydrocarbon radicals. On oxidation the secondary alcohols
form ketones.
{Secondary amputation} (Surg.), an amputation for injury,
performed after the constitutional effects of the injury
have subsided.
{Secondary axis} (Opt.), any line which passes through the
optical center of a lens but not through the centers of
curvature, or, in the case of a mirror, which passes
through the center of curvature but not through the center
of the mirror.
{Secondary battery}. (Elec.) See under {Battery}, n., 4.
{Secondary circle} (Geom. & Astron.), a great circle passes
through the poles of another great circle and is therefore
perpendicular to its plane.
{Secondary circuit}, {Secondary coil} (Elec.), a circuit or
coil in which a current is produced by the induction of a
current in a neighboring circuit or coil called the
primary circuit or coil.
{Secondary color}, a color formed by mixing any two primary
colors in equal proportions.
{Secondary coverts} (Zo["o]l.), the longer coverts which
overlie the basal part of the secondary quills of a bird.
See Illust. under {Bird}.
{Secondary crystal} (Min.), a crystal derived from one of the
primary forms.
{Secondary current} (Elec.), a momentary current induced in a
closed circuit by a current of electricity passing through
the same or a contiguous circuit at the beginning and also
at the end of the passage of the primary current.
{Secondary evidence}, that which is admitted upon failure to
obtain the primary or best evidence.
{Secondary fever} (Med.), a fever coming on in a disease
after the subsidence of the fever with which the disease
began, as the fever which attends the outbreak of the
eruption in smallpox.
{Secondary hemorrhage} (Med.), hemorrhage occuring from a
wounded blood vessel at some considerable time after the
original bleeding has ceased.
{Secondary planet}. (Astron.) See the Note under {Planet}.
{Secondary qualities}, those qualities of bodies which are
not inseparable from them as such, but are dependent for
their development and intensity on the organism of the
percipient, such as color, taste, odor, etc.
{Secondary quills} or {remiges} (Zo["o]l.), the quill
feathers arising from the forearm of a bird and forming a
row continuous with the primaries; -- called also
{secondaries}. See Illust. of {Bird}.
{Secondary rocks} or {strata} (Geol.), those lying between
the Primary, or Paleozoic, and Tertiary (see {Primary
rocks}, under {Primary}); -- later restricted to strata of
the Mesozoic age, and at but little used.
{Secondary syphilis} (Med.), the second stage of syphilis,
including the period from the first development of
constitutional symptoms to the time when the bones and the
internal organs become involved.
{Secondary tint}, any subdued tint, as gray.
{Secondary union} (Surg.), the union of wounds after
suppuration; union by the second intention.
Syn: Second; second-rate; subordinate; inferior.
Old Escalus . . . is thy secondary. --Shak.
2. (Astron.)
(a) A secondary circle.
(b) A satellite.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A secondary quill.
{Reptilian age} (Geol.), that part of geological time
comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods,
and distinguished as that era in which the class of
reptiles attained its highest expansion; -- called also
the {Secondary} or {Mezozoic} age.
Books can never teach the use of books. --Bacon.
This Davy serves you for good uses. --Shak.
When he framed All things to man's delightful use.
--Milton.
2. Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no
further use for a book. --Shak.
3. Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of
being used; usefulness; utility.
God made two great lights, great for their use To
man. --Milton.
'T is use alone that sanctifies expense. --Pope.
4. Continued or repeated practice; customary employment;
usage; custom; manner; habit.
Let later age that noble use envy. --Spenser.
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me
all the uses of this world! --Shak.
5. Common occurrence; ordinary experience. [R.]
O C[ae]sar! these things are beyond all use. --Shak.
6. (Eccl.) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any
diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford
use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.
From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but
one use. --Pref. to
Book of Common
Prayer.
7. The premium paid for the possession and employment of
borrowed money; interest; usury. [Obs.]
Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use
and principal, to him. --Jer. Taylor.
8. [In this sense probably a corruption of OF. oes, fr. L.
opus need, business, employment, work. Cf. {Operate}.]
(Law) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use
imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the
holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is
intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and
limited to A for the use of B.
9. (Forging) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging,
as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by
hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
{Contingent}, or {Springing}, {use} (Law), a use to come into
operation on a future uncertain event.
{In use}.
(a) In employment; in customary practice observance.
(b) In heat; -- said especially of mares. --J. H. Walsh.
{Of no use}, useless; of no advantage.
{Of use}, useful; of advantage; profitable.
{Out of use}, not in employment.
{Resulting use} (Law), a use, which, being limited by the
deed, expires or can not vest, and results or returns to
him who raised it, after such expiration.
{Secondary}, or {Shifting}, {use}, a use which, though
executed, may change from one to another by circumstances.
--Blackstone.
{Statute of uses} (Eng. Law), the stat. 27 Henry VIII., cap.
10, which transfers uses into possession, or which unites
the use and possession.
{To make use of}, {To put to use}, to employ; to derive
service from; to use.