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.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.

Partially solid.

A half sound; a low tone.

Formed like a half spheroid.

Puddled steel.

A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.

The tangent of half an arc.

One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively.

Half terete.

Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent. An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.

Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races.

A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin.

Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

Of or pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone, or of semitones.

Lit., half-tontine; -- used to designate a form of tontine life insurance. See Tontine insurance.

The half of a transept; as, the north semitransept of a church.

Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree.

Imperfect or partial transparency.

Half or imperfectly transparent.

Partially verticillate.

Only half alive.

Partially vitreous.

The quality or state of being semivitrified.

Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.

Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.

A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. The sign or letter representing such a sound.

Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical. At intervals of half a week each.

See Semolina.

The purified fine, hard parts of durum wheat, derived mostly from the endosperm, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery, such as in the preparation of Italian pasta.

Same as Semolina.

Same as Semolina.

Always fresh; evergreen.

The houseleek.

A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.

Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.

Sempiternal.

Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal.

Always; throughout; as, sempre piano, always soft.

A seamster.

A seamstress.

Seamstressy.

A seamster.

A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound.

Since.

Of six; belonging to six; containing six.

An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions. A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.

A member of a senate.

Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity.

In a senatorial manner.

Senatorial.

Senatorial.

The office or dignity of a senator.

A decree of the Roman senate.

The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.

A light thin stuff of silk.

One who sends.

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.

A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.

Old age.

Seneca root.

Gum senegal. See under Gum.

A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.

The state of growing old; decay by time.