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Class
·vi To grouped or classed. II. Class ·noun A set; a kind or description, species or variety. III. ...

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class
Order or rank; specially relating to dockyard men. ...

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Second
·noun Aid; assistance; help. II. Second ·noun The second part in a concerted piece; — often popula...

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second
The sixtieth part of a minute. A division of a degree of a circle. A term applied both to time and t...

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Class day
·add. ·- In American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior...

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First-class
·adj Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate;...

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Second-rate
·adj Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a secon...

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Second-sight
·noun The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future event...

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Second-sighted
·adj Having the power of second-sight. ...

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Thirty-second
·adj Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. ...

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Twelfth-second
·noun A unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such that 1012 (ten trillion) of these ...

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Second Postern
Between London Wall and Fore Street, east of Aldermanbury Postern (Rocque, 1746-London Guide, 1758, ...

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second-captain
Commanders under captains in the navy, of late. ...

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second-counter
See counter. ...

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second-futtocks
The frame-timbers scarphed on the end of the futtock-timbers. ...

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second-hand
A term in fishing-boats to distinguish the second in charge. ...

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second officer
Second mate in merchantmen. ...

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second-rate
Vessels of seventy-four guns (on the old scale). ...

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Temple, the Second
After the return from captivity, under Zerubbabel (q.v.) and the high priest Jeshua, arrangements we...

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to play second fiddle
is to take an inferior part in any project or undertaking. A metaphor borrowed from a musical perfor...

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John, Second Epistle of
Is addressed to "the elect lady," and closes with the words, "The children of thy elect sister greet...

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Peter, Second Epistle of
The question of the authenticity of this epistle has been much discussed, but the weight of evidence...

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Timothy, Second Epistle to
Was probably written a year or so after the first, and from Rome, where Paul was for a second time a...

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Peter, Second Epistle Of
The following is a brief outline of the contents of this epistle: The customary opening salutation i...

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Corinthians, Second Epistle to the
Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense exciteme...

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Corinthians, Second Epistle To The
was written a few months subsequent to the first, in the same year-about the autumn of A.D. 57 or 58...

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Esdras, The Second Book Of
This exists in a Latin translation, the Greek being lost. Chapters 3-14 consist of a series of angel...

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Thessalonians, Second Epistle To The
appears to have been written from Corinth not very long after the first, for Silvanus and Timotheus ...

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Chronicles, First And Second Books Of
the name originally given to the record made by the appointed historiographers in the kingdoms of Is...

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Kings, First And Second Books Of
originally only one book in the Hebrew canon, from in the LXX. and the Vulgate the third and fourth ...

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John, The Second And Third Epistles Of
The second epistle is addressed to an individual woman. One who had children, and a sister and niece...

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