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.
      
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            And he slept and dreamed the second time. --Gen.
                                                  xli. 5.
      
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   2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or
      rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
      
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            May the day when we become the second people upon
            earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation.
                                                  --Landor.
      
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   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.
      
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            A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! --Shak.
      
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   {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.
      
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            On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had
            known him.                            --Dickens.
      
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File \File\ (f[imac]l), n. [AS. fe['o]l; akin to D. viji, OHG.
   f[imac]la, f[imac]hala, G. feile, Sw. fil, Dan. fiil, cf.
   Icel. [thorn][=e]l, Russ. pila, and Skr. pi[,c] to cut out,
   adorn; perh. akin to E. paint.]
   1. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made
      by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or
      smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
      
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   Note: A file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made
         by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed,
         while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the
         pyramidal end of a triangular punch.
         
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   2. Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or
      figuratively.
      
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            Mock the nice touches of the critic's file.
                                                  --Akenside.
      
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   3. A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] --Fielding.
      
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            Will is an old file in spite of his smooth face.
                                                  --Thackeray.
      
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   {Bastard file}, {Cross file}, etc. See under {Bastard},
      {Cross}, etc.

   {Cross-cut file}, a file having two sets of teeth crossing
      obliquely.

   {File blank}, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for
      cutting to form a file.

   {File cutter}, a maker of files.

   {Second-cut file}, a file having teeth of a grade next finer
      than bastard.

   {Single-cut file}, a file having only one set of parallel
      teeth; a float.

   {Smooth file}, a file having teeth so fine as to make an
      almost smooth surface.
      
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