Hypertext Webster Gateway: "secondhand"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Secondhand \Sec"ond*hand`\, a.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
secondhand
adj 1: derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand; "a
secondhand report"; "a secondhand account of a memory
of something once read"; "most of our knowledge is
secondhand"
2: previously used or owned by another; "bought a secondhand
(or used) car" [syn: {used}]
adv : by indirect means; "I heard about it only secondhand or
thirdhand"; "he prefers to buy secondhand"
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