(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:58:32

Sec"ond-rate` (?), a.

Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.

Dryden.

 

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