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A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.

ie. If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am. Dryden.

s whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to râle in its widest sense. See Râle.

The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open.

To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.

r sharp-cornered wheels do the cutting. -- Rotary valve, a valve acting by continuous or partial rotation, as in the four-way cock.

that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.

) A salt derived from an acid which has several replaceable hydrogen atoms which are only partially exchanged for metallic atoms or basic radicals; as, acid potassium sulphate is an acid salt. (b) A salt, whatever its constitution, which merely gives an acid reaction; thus, copper sulphate, which is composed of a stron…

(Chem.) A vessel of hot sand in a laboratory, in which vessels that are to be heated are partially immersed. (b) A bath in which the body is immersed in hot sand. -- Sand bed, a thick layer of sand, whether deposited naturally or artificially; specifically, a thick layer of sand into which molten metal is run in cast…

e found scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and is usually fatal. Called also multiple, disseminated, or insular, sclerosis.

Half crustaceous; partially crustaceous.

Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf.

Half barbarous; partially civilized. -- n.

Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.

Partially chaotic.

Half or partially ligneous, as a stem partly woody and partly herbaceous.

The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity.

Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.

Partially nude; half naked.

Half or partially penniform; as, a semipenniform muscle.