A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
The chief administrator of a school.
A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
The primary participant in a crime.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
A security principal.
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
A partner or owner of a business.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
Primary; most important; first level in importance.
One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
An additional helping of food.
Something that is number two in a series.
A second-class honours degree.
One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
Second base.
A short, indeterminate amount of time.
Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
The second gear of an engine.
One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
After the first; at the second rank.
After the first occurrence but before the third.
Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
To climb after a lead climber.
To assist or support; to back.
To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under [[#Etymology 3]] for translations.)
To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.)
To accompany by singing as the second performer.
To follow in the next place; to succeed.
To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.