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The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.

• Jointweed
  A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
• Second-sighted
  Having the power of second-sight.
• Jointworm
  The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop.
• SECONDCLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• SECONDRATE
  Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.
• Seconding
  of Second
• 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
• Secondarily
  In a secondary manner or degree.
• SECONDSIGHTED
  Having the power of second-sight. Addison.
• Secondariness
  The state of being secondary.
• Joint-fir
  A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California.
• Secondary
  Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

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