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Second girl

Second \Sec"ond\, a. [F., fr. L. secundus second, properly, following, fr. sequi to follow. See Sue to follow, and cf. Secund.]

  1. 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.
    --Gen. xli. 5.

  2. 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.
    --Landor.

  3. 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.

Wiktionary
second girl

n. (context historical English) A female house-servant responsible for relatively light work, such as chamber-work or waiting at table.

Usage examples of "second girl".

Young lady Frances Cary, the second girl, has been there some time.

The second girl, a year or so older than her sister, joined them with a show of dignity but was also swept up in her father's embrace.

A second girl joined the first, the fringe on their shawls shaking in time to the drums and the slow rotation of their hips.

Then he had to not look at the second girl who came to stand in the bedroom doorway, pulling on a white lace robe.