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secundine|ˈsɛkʌndɪn| Also 4–6 secondyne, (4 -dying), 6–7, 9 secondine. [ad. late L. secundīnæ pl. (for which class. Latin had secundæ), f. secundus following: see second a. and -ine.] 1. Obstetrics. The placenta and other adjuncts of a fœtus extruded from the womb after the expulsion of the fœtus in parturition; the afterbirth. Frequently pl.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xlix. (Tollemache MS.), It is seyde þat it [Dittany]..bryngeþ oute secundine, þe bagge þat þe childe is inne in þe moder. 1490Caxton Eneydos xxiv. 88 She taketh the lytell skynne that remayneth of the secondyne within the forhed of the lytell foole. Ibid. 89 The secondying. 1526Grete Herball xxviii. (1529) B v b, Other saye that it [amber] is y⊇ secondyne that she [a whale] casteth whan she hath spawned. c1550Lloyd Treas. Health (1560) Q j, [It] causeth the delyuerance of the child and of the secondynes, and after burden. 1610Markham Masterp. i. lxxxvii. 171 She cannot auoyd her secundine, which is the skinne wherein the foale is wrapped. 1754–64Smellie Midwifery I. 240 All the Secundines ought to be extracted at once. 1855Ramsbotham Obst. Med. 68 And, with the membranes and the cord, the secundines. b. transf. and fig.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. 95 Not..till we have once more cast our secondine, that is, this slough of flesh, and are delivered into the last world. 1652French Yorkshire Spa vi. 55 Every Sulphur Embroinatum..is but an impurity of its Embrio, and as it were..the secundine thereof. 1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, Muse iii, Through the firm shell..[thou] do'st spie, Years to come a forming lie, Close in their sacred Secondine asleep, Till hatcht by the Suns vital heat. †2. Ent. The inner coat of a cocoon. rare—1.
1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 64 Lest..moisture..cause both strings and secundine to rotte. 3. Bot. The second of two coats or integuments of an ovule, originally the inner one, later applied to the outer covering: see primine. So mod.L. secundina (Malpighi 1671, from whom quot. 1683 is a translation).
1671Grew Anat. Plants i. vii. (1682) 47 The Fourth or Innermost Cover we may call the Secondine. The sight of which, by cutting off the Coats of an Infant Bean, at the Cone.., may be obtain'd. 1683A. Snape Anat. Horse App. i. i. 10 The first day after it [a grain of wheat] is sown, it grows a little turgid, and the secundine or husk gapes a little. 1832Lindley Introd. Bot. 155 The outermost but one of the sacs is called the secondine; it immediately reposes upon the primine. 1875–85[see primine b]. |