Word Meanings - BETA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The second letter of the Greek alphabet, B, b. See B, and cf. etymology of Alphabet. Beta (B, b) is used variously for classifying, as: (a) (Astron.) To designate some bright star, usually the second brightest, of a constellation, as, b Aurigæ. (b) (Chem.) To distinguish one of two or more isomers; also, to indicate the position of substituting atoms or groups in certain compounds; as, b-naphthol. With acids, it commonly indicates that the substituent is in union with the carbon atom next to that to which the carboxyl group is attached.

• Secondhand
  Not original or primary; received from another.
• Unionist
  One who advocates or promotes union; especially a loyal supporter of a federal union, as that of the United States.
• Attached
  of Attach
• SECONDRATE
  Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.
• Brightness
  The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.
• Classifying
  of Classify
• Etymology
  That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.
• Secondly
  In the second place.
• Unionistic
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• Attaching
  of Attach
• SECONDSIGHT
  The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed his op
• Bright's disease
  An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, an
• Carbonic
  Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide.
• Classify
  To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.
• Letterpress
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations.
• Secondo
  The second part in a concerted piece.
• Alphabet
  The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

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