A selfish person.
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Having no regard to self; unselfish.
Quality or state of being selfless.
Selfishness.
Precisely the same; the very same; identical.
A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows.
A member of the family of Seljuk; an adherent of that family, or subject of its government; the dynasty of Turkish sultans sprung from Seljuk.
Of or pertaining to Seljuk, a Tartar chief who embraced Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century.
An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
See Sallenders.
One who sells.
A gazogene.
A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.
Vast woodland plains of South America.
Self; same.
The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.
Having a selvage.
pl. of Self.
Silly.
A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr. under Discophora, and Medusa.
pertaining to the meanings of words.
the study of the meanings of words and of the sense development of words; -- formerly called semasiology.
A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.
Of or pertaining to a semaphore, or semaphores; telegraphic.
By means of a semaphore.
One who manages or operates a semaphore.
The science of meanings or sense development (of words); the explanation of the development and changes of the meanings of words; -- more commonly referred to as semantics.
Significant; ominous; serving as a warning of danger; -- applied esp. to the warning colors or forms of certain animals.
The doctrine of signs as the expression of thought or reasoning; the science of indicating thought by signs.
An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions.
Likeness; representation.
In like manner.
Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.
Show; appearance; figure; semblance.
Resembling.
Like; resembling.
The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
A linguistic sign.
Sprinkled or sown; -- said of field, or a charge, when strewed or covered with small charges.
A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus.
The seed of plants.
Seminiferous.
A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or university which divides the year into two terms.
Half of a circumference.
Half crustaceous; partially crustaceous.
The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa.
Of or pertaining to Semi-Arianism.
The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Arians.
Half Christianized.
Designating an internal-combustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ignition by a blast-lamp until the engine is running, when it is, ordinarily, kept red hot by the heat of combustion.
Of or pertaining to the Semi-Pelagians, or their tenets.
The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Pelagians.
Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-1250.
Slightly acid; subacid.
Half acidified.
Adherent part way.
Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf.
The half of a given, or measuring, angle.
Half-yearly.
Every half year.
Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle.
One half of the axis of an /llipse or other figure.
Half barbarous; partially civilized. One partly civilized.
Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display.
The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.
Half barbarous.
A note of half the time or duration of the breve; -- now usually called a whole note. It is the longest note in general use.
A semibreve.
A bull issued by a pope in the period between his election and coronation.
Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.
Half calcined; as, semicalcined iron.
To deprive of one testicle.
A fiftieth anniversary.
Partially chaotic.
A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir.
The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference. A semicircumference.
Semicircular.
Having the form of half of a circle.
A semicircular hollow or opening among trees or hills.
The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.
A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.
Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
Half compact; imperfectly indurated.
Half conscious; imperfectly conscious.
A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope.
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
Of or pertaining to the square root of the cube of a quantity.
A half bath, or one that covers only the lewer extremities and the hips; a sitz-bath; a half bath, or hip bath.
Half cylindrical.
Half deisticsl; bordering on deism.
A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.
Half detached; partly distinct or separate.
Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.
An imperfect octave.
An imperfect or diminished fifth.
Half or imperfect transparency; translucency.
Half or imperfectly transparent; translucent.
An imperfect or diminished fourth.
A lesser third, having its terms as 6 to 5; a hemiditone.
Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day.
A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere.
Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower.
That which is part fable and part truth; a mixture of truth and fable.
Half bent.
See Semifloscule.
Semiflosculous.
A floscule, or florest, with its corolla prolonged into a strap-shaped petal; -- called also semifloret.
Having all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion.
Imperfectly fluid. A semifluid substance.
A half form; an imperfect form.
Half formed; imperfectly formed; as, semiformed crystals.
A peptonelike body, insoluble in alcohol, formed by boiling collagen or gelatin for a long time in water. Hemicollin, a like body, is also formed at the same time, and differs from semiglutin by being partly soluble in alcohol.
Half or party historical.
Half-hourly.
Imperfectly indurated or hardened.
Imperfectly changed into stone.
The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.
Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens.
Half or partially ligneous, as a stem partly woody and partly herbaceous.
Half liquid; semifluid.
The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity.
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