What is "second hand"

Second \Sec"ond\, n.

1. One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power.

   Man An angel's second, nor his second long.
   --Young.

2. One who follows or attends another for his support and aid; a backer; an assistant; specifically, one who acts as another's aid in a duel.

   Being sure enough of seconds after the first onset.
   --Sir H. Wotton.

3. Aid; assistance; help. [Obs.]

   Give second, and my love Is everlasting thine.
   --J. Fletcher.

4. pl. An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

5. [F. seconde. See Second, a.] The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place.

6. In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8.

7. (Mus.)

   1. The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.

   2. The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.

8. (Parliamentary Procedure) A motion in support of another motion which has been moved in a deliberative body; a motion without a second dies without discussion.

   Second hand, the hand which marks the seconds on the dial of a watch or a clock.

a. (alternative form of secondhand English) alt. (alternative form of secondhand English) n. On a clock or watch, the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed.

1. n. an intermediate person; used in the phrase `at second hand'; "he could learn at second hand from books"

2. hand marking seconds on a timepiece

3. adv. from a source of previously owned goods; "I prefer to buy second hand"

Second Hand is an album by Mark Heard, released in 1991, on Heard's own Fingerprint Records. The album was listed at No. 4 in the book CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music (Harvest House Publishers, 2001).

At the 4th Annual Americana Music Association Honors & Awards at the Ryman Auditorium in September 2005, Buddy Miller received the Album of the Year Award for his Universal United House of Prayer, and the opening track of that album, a cover of Heard's "Worry Too Much" (originally released on this album), won the Song of the Year Award.

Second Hand is a 2005 Romanian film directed by Dan Pița.

A second hand good is one purchased by or otherwise transferred to a second or later end-user.

Second hand may also refer to:

• Second Hand (band), British progressive rock band
• Second Hand (album), 1991 album by Mark Heard
• Second Hand (film), 2005 Romanian film
• Secondhand Serenade, a solo project of John Vesely (musician)
• One of the hands on some clock faces
• Secondhand smoking, the inhalation of smoke produced by others
• "Second Hand", song by Bachman-Turner Overdrive from the album Not Fragile
• Second Hand (Marcin Rozynek album), 2012 album by Marcin Rozynek

Second Hand were a British progressive rock band, established by teenagers Ken Elliott, Kieran O'Connor and Bob Gibbons in 1965. They recorded three studio albums ( the first was released in 1968) until their breakup in 1972. The band is considered to be one of the first and most underestimated progressive rock bands in history.