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单词 second hand
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second handn.adj.

Forms: Also second-hand.
Etymology: Compare hand n. 25a(a), French de seconde main , and first hand n., adj., and adv.
A. n. (second hand.)
1. In substantive use: The second in a series of persons through whose hands something passes; an intermediary, middleman. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency > intermediate means > person as
dealerc1000
meanc1384
mediatorc1390
moyen1455
intermediator1522
broker1530
middlera1533
intercessor1554
mercury1602
intermedial1605
transactor1611
interdealer1613
intermeddler1630
intercommuner1638
middleman1648
second hand1655
inter-agent1728
intermediary1791
in-between1815
medium1817
intermediate1879
come-between1919
tolkach1955
1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. v. 452 His absence..made him but from second hands, and confus'dly learne it.
1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 577 He doth not Mediate with him by a second hand, or at a distance, but in his own Person.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. Pref. 14 Those Reports came..to him by Second or Third Hands.
2. In adverbial phrases.
a. at second hand (†also at the or a second hand, on the second hand): (to buy, receive, learn, etc.) from another than the maker, or original vendor (of goods), or the primary source (of information, etc.). In the 18th cent. also (? after French) to hear from second hand.In the first quot. as may be a mistake for at; but perhaps second hand may mean ‘second purchaser’.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adverb] > second-hand
at second hand1613
on the second hand1665
second hand1849
society > communication > information > action of informing > [adverb] > learn from other than original source
to hear from second hand1753
1474 Coventry Leet Bk. 401 Also the sise ys that no maner of man nor woman schall not stalle nor Regrate no markett..wher thorough the markett shuld be the Wers and the pore Comons gretely hurte to by as the ijde honde.
1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Biiv Whose thredde-bare knowledge beeing bought at the second hand, is spotted..and defaced, through translaters rigorous rude dealing.
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 44 The substance of the tale is true. I told you that I had it at the second hand.
1613 Bodl. Day-bk. (MS.) lf. 18 A note of such Books as were bought at London of Jhon Edwards at second hand.
1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) 62 So that I may say the eye receives the forme of the object at a second hand, as it were from the medium.
1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 2 You have done wisely to decline the correspondence of Sir Marm. Langdale at a second hand, thro' the consul's conveyance.
1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 132 Cathay, where they are forced to take their Rye, Hemp,..and Musk, on the second hand of the Chinois.
1681 H. Dodwell Disc. Sanchoniathon's Phœn. Hist. 12 He quoted him by memory, and at the Second hand.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. v. 184 For, to say the Truth, there is no kind of Flattery so irresistible as this, at second Hand . View more context for this quotation
1753 G. Washington Jrnl. in Writings (1889) I. 481 I have heard from second-hand, that they intend to make no allowance for the fish we left there.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. iii. 35 ‘Well, we don't want one of your father's sermons at second-hand,’ replied the midshipman.
b. at the second hand: by a secondary operation. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > in operation [phrase] > by a secondary operation
at the second hand1545
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. Gv The meat & drinck which we dayly do eate, by dygestion, fyrst of ye stomack, the fyne iuyce, therof is seperatyd from ye drosse & grosser part, & then after at ye second hand, the foresaid iuyce..attract..in to the lyuer.., there transmutid in to blud.
c. by second hand: through an intermediary, through another person as agent. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] > through intermediate means
at (the) third hand1553
by way of1560
by second hand1721
1721 J. Swift Bubble 70 When Stock is high, they come between, Making by second-hand their Offers.
d. of second hand = B. 1. [a Gallicism] .
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > not original or derivative
secondary1398
borrowed1571
third hand1598
denominative1624
second hand1654
second-handed1682
of second hand1708
unoriginal1749
uninventive1776
unoriginative1845
uncreative1855
hand-me-down1881
reach-me-down1907
cookie cutter1922
1708 Ld. Shaftesbury Let. conc. Enthusiasm vi. 67 There is a sort of Enthusiasm of second hand.
B. adj. (second-hand.) [The phrase used attributively.] Obtained at second hand.
1. Not original or obtained from the original source; plagiarized or borrowed; imitative, derivative.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > not original or derivative
secondary1398
borrowed1571
third hand1598
denominative1624
second hand1654
second-handed1682
of second hand1708
unoriginal1749
uninventive1776
unoriginative1845
uncreative1855
hand-me-down1881
reach-me-down1907
cookie cutter1922
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 143 If a man cloath his discourse in a Language that is not second hand English, or but one degree above..Caterwauling, why he is affected.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xlvi The Waiting-Woman, who, if she hath been bred to read Romances, may have some small subaltern, or second-hand Politeness.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i Are you not called..a mock Mæcenas to second-hand authors?
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 323 You hold up, to chastise them, the second-hand authority of a king, who is only the instrument of destroying, without any power of protecting either the people or his own person. View more context for this quotation
1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. x. 163 Even of this second-hand knowledge there was very little.
1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 13 Second-hand impressions are as worthless as second-hand morality.
2.
a. Not new, having been previously used or worn by another, as second-hand clothes, second-hand books, etc.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adjective] > re-used > second-, etc., hand
fourth-hand1598
second hand1673
repossesseda1678
second-handed1682
third hand1862
used1874
resale1929
pre-owned1934
pre-loved1972
1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master v. 94 I will have no little, dirty, second-hand Charriot new forbish'd, but a large, sociable, well painted Coach.
1698 J. Crowne Caligula i. 4 Second-hand Cloaths he may as proudly wear.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 201 The traitor..dazzled her with his second-hand finery.
1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 46 §82 All persons so dealing in second-hand articles without being first duly licensed.
1862 (title) The Library Circular of New and Second-Hand Books.
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 74 But a second-hand son-in-law of 22 is superior to many brand-new ones.
b. Said jocularly of food, with various notions.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > other types of meat
gross meatc1460
fish1607
crimp-meat1656
small meata1662
second hand1694
slink1736
soup-meat1841
box meat1856
sacrifice meat1926
MRM1980
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. lxvii The Cupboard wherein second-hand-meat is kept [the bowels].
1862 A. Halliday in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 408/2 Miss Betsey would..enjoy whatever poultry or meat had not been touched; but anything that had been cut, anything ‘second-hand’, that dainty and haughty young lady would instruct her sister Kitty to give to the poor beggars.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Sept. 12/1 What is technically called a ‘second-hand joint’, that is one that has had all its choice parts sliced off.
1893 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour (rev. ed.) xlvii. 250 The cook sent him a most moderate dinner, smoked soup, second-hand fish, scraggy cutlets, and sour pudding.
c. absol. or quasi-n. A second-hand book.
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1905 Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 18/2 If a book..doesn't get a good sale within the first two months, it is no good as a second-hand.
1966 J. B. Priestley Salt is Leaving i. 6 He might be going off to some auction sale—y'know, to buy some more secondhands.
3. second-hand bookseller, second-hand clothier, etc.: one dealing in second-hand goods. So second-hand bookselling, second-hand bookstall, second-hand shop, second-hand store, etc.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of
bawdy-basket1567
ballad-monger1598
land-pirate1608
map-monger1639
bookwoman1647
mercury1648
second-hand bookseller1656
Bible-seller1707
map-seller1710
stall-man1761
book auctioneer1776
scrap-monger1786
colporteur1796
death-hunter1851
train boy1852
speech-crier1856
roarer1865
looker-out1894
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > second-hand shop
junk store1777
second-hand shop1795
rubbish shop1833
junk shop1838
thrift shop1947
second-hander1969
thrift store1972
1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 148 They call it their Library; for my part, I should have thought it to have been the warehouse of some second hand Bookseller.
1795 J.-B. Lechevalier Let. in W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 24 Sept. (1965) iii. 306 The old Plates, Plaisters, Sermons, Pieces of Iron, Brass and Copper that you purchased lately in that second hand Shop.
1862 Library Circular July 158 (advt.) Messrs. Tinsley Brothers,..Wholesale, Retail, and Second-hand Booksellers.
1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 115 Here there were all sorts of things..old iron stalls, second-hand book stalls.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xxxix. 330 The head of the second-hand bookselling trade of London.
1904 Dial. Notes 2 421 You can get most anything at the second-hand store.
1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 (recto rear cover) They may even end up on a second-hand bookstall.
1981 Country Life 16 July 205/1 A book very well worth looking out for in second-hand shops.
figurative.1902 Daily Chron. 3 Jan. 3/3 The modern second-hand dealers in popular criticism.
4. quasi-adv.= at second hand.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adverb] > second-hand
at second hand1613
on the second hand1665
second hand1849
1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1855) 1st Ser. x. 181 Maxims learned second-hand by rote and not by heart.
1910 S. Cook in Expositor Aug. 115 Babylonian culture could continue to reach Canaan secondhand.

Derivatives

secondˈhandiness n. appearance of being second-hand.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > condition of having lost freshness > shabbiness
shabbiness1711
seediness1832
secondhandinessa1849
down-at-heeledness1916
a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 120 The staleness of their method and the second-handiness of their costume.
secondˈhandness n. rare.
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1886 F. W. Farrar Hist. Interpr. 225 Four serious drawbacks of overhaste, second-handness, vehement prejudice and incessant vacillation.

Draft additions September 2008

secondhand smoke n. the smoke from another person's cigarette, etc., esp. as inhaled involuntarily (particularly by a non-smoker); cf. passive smoke n. at passive adj. and n. Compounds.
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1891 Cambr. City (Indiana) Tribune 15 Oct. 4/1 (heading) Secondhand smoke... It wasn't long before Ira declared that he got just as much enjoyment from his smoke at secondhand.
1896 Forest & Stream 9 May 377/3 As I do not smoke, the Judge would invariably inflict upon me a second-hand smoke by getting to windward of me.
1933 Los Angeles Times 8 Apr. ii. 8/2 She is..forgetful of the fact that the second-hand smoke really poisons the nonsmokers who have to inhale it.
2007 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Mar. a15/2 They measured for levels of cotinine—a breakdown product of nicotine—which is a standard scientific test for gauging contact with second-hand smoke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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