The Collaborative International Dictionary
Second \Sec"ond\, a. [F., fr. L. secundus second, properly, following, fr. sequi to follow. See Sue to follow, and cf. Secund.]
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Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occurring again; another; other.
And he slept and dreamed the second time.
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Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation.
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Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a prototype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge.
A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
--Shak.Second Adventist. See Adventist.
Second cousin, the child of a cousin.
Second-cut file. See under File.
Second distance (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; -- called also middle ground, or middle distance. [R.]
Second estate (Eng.), the House of Peers.
Second girl, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table.
Second intention. See under Intention.
Second story, Second floor, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the first floor, the one beneath being the ground floor.
Second thought or Second thoughts, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration.
On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him.
--Dickens.
Wikipedia
Second Story is the second studio album of the Japanese pop music duo ClariS, released on June 26, 2013 by SME Records. The album contains 12 music tracks, three of which were previously released on three of ClariS' singles. Three different editions of the album were released: a regular CD version and two CD+DVD limited editions. Second Story peaked at No. 6 on the Japanese Oricon weekly albums chart.
Four of the songs were used as theme songs for various media: " Wake Up" was used as the opening theme to the 2012 anime television series Moyashimon Returns; "With You" was the theme song to 2013 video game Exstetra; " Luminous" used as the opening theme to the first two Puella Magi Madoka Magica anime films; and " Reunion" was the opening theme to the 2013 anime television series Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai..
Usage examples of "second story".
I could not say more or weaken my resolution, so I fled down the steps from the second story.
I had delayed my descent to the Main Hall, so I was rather surprised to find so many of our relations from the second story.
The second story, Eclipse, parallels somewhat both the American Revolution and the break-up of colonialism taking place on this planet today, for it is concerned with the colonies on Mars and on Venus becoming self-sufficient and politically mature and breaking away from Mother Earth, followed by almost complete cessation of interplanetary travel.
Outside, a scant two feet of slippery thatch separated the second story wall and a drop to the cobblestones in the stableyard.
The second story bubbled in my head for a long time before I wrote down anything but notes.
Not until he had gone up almost to the second story did he perceive his mistake, and go down again.
He looked straight up the street toward an open window in the second story of a house beyond the abandoned service station.