Seclude
(Se*clude) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Secluding.] [L. secludere, seclusum; pref.
se- aside + claudere to shut. See Close, v. t.]
1. To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse
with others.
Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven
Seclude their bosom slaves.
Thomson. 2. To shut or keep out; to exclude. [Obs.] Evelyn.
— Se*clud"ed*ly, adv. — Se*clud"ed*ness, n.
Seclusion
(Se*clu"sion) n. [See Seclude.] The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation
from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.
O blest seclusion from a jarring world, which he, thus occupied, enjoys!
Cowper. Syn. — Solitude; separation; withdrawment; retirement; privacy. See Solitude.
Seclusive
(Se*clu"sive) a. Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.
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 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. 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.