Show; appearance; figure; semblance.
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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.
Half logical; partly logical; said of fallacies.
A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc. See Simplor.
The semilunar bone.
Semilunar.
Semilunar.
The half of a lune.
An element possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree and not malleable, as arsenic, antimony, bismuth, molybdenum, uranium, etc.
Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.
Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment. Something done or made every half month; esp., a semimonthly periodical. In a semimonthly manner; at intervals of half a month.
A semimute person.
A seed.
The quality or state of being seminal.
A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- formerly called also seminary, now seldom used in this sense.
A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.
Belonging to seed; seminal.
To sow; to spread; to propagate.
The act of sowing or spreading.
Thickly covered or sown, as with seeds.
Seed-bearing; producing seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles.
Forming or producing seed, or the male generative product of animals or of plants.
Propagation from seed.
A believer in the old theory that the newly created being is formed by the admixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female.
A tribe of Indians who formerly occupied Florida, where some of them still remain. They belonged to the Creek Confideration.
A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup having a sweetish-bitter taste.
Partially nude; half naked.
The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state.
Once in a while; on rare occasions.
Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement.
A description of the signs of disease.
Of or pertaining to the science of signs, or the systematic use of signs; as, a semeiological classification of the signs or symptoms of disease; a semeiological arrangement of signs used as signals.
The study of signs as an element of communication; the analysis of systems of communication; -- also called semiotics. The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology. The art of using signs in signaling.
Semiopaque.
A variety of opal not possessing opalescence.
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