Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display.
Loading earlier words…
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.
Half opaque; only half transparent.
Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.
Same as Semeiotic.
Relating to signs or indications; pertaining to the language of signs, or to language generally as indicating thought.
Same as Semeiotics.
The study of signs as an element of communication; the analysis of systems of communication; -- also called semiology.
Half oval.
Half ovate.
Combined with oxygen only in part.
Half pagan.
Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.
One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve.
A half foot in poetry.
Containing a half foot.
Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem.
The quality or state of being imperfectly transparent.
Half or partially penniform; as, a semipenniform muscle.
Half or partly permanent.
Half transparent; imperfectly clear; semipellucid.
Partially impregnated with phlogiston.
A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals. Used mostly of gemstones used in jewelry, such as amethyst, garnet, or iolite, which are sufficiently rare to have commercial value, but are not considered as precious, as are the diamond, emerald, and ruby.
Half proof; evidence from the testimony of a single witness.
An aspect of the planets when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half.
A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixteenth note.
An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.
Half radial.
Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.
One of the incomplete rings of the upper part of the bronchial tubes of most birds. The semirings form an essential part of the syrinx, or musical organ, of singing birds.
One who is half savage.
Loading more words…