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second

(Encyclopedia) second, abbr. sec or s, fundamental unit of time in all systems of measurement. In practical terms, the second is 1/60 of a minute, 1/3,600 of an hour, or 1/86,400 of a day. Since the…

Second Song

Second Song[Hobbinol. Phillis. Tomalin.]HobbinolPhillis, Tomalin, away: Never such a merry day. For the Northern Shepheards Son Has Menalca's daughter won.PhillisStay till I some flow'rs ha'…

The Second Coming

The Second ComingTurning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-…

Brewer's: Second

(See Two.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Second-handSebastianistes A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…

Mundaka-Upanishad: Second Mundaka, Second Khanda

Second Khanda 1. Manifest, near, moving in the cave (of the heart) is the great Being. In it everything is centred which ye know as moving, breathing, and blinking, as being and not-being, as…