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Partially impregnated with phlogiston.

Partially solid.

Imperfect or partial transparency.

Partially verticillate.

Partially vitreous.

Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.

eld as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. Roscommon. The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. Macaulay.

Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light.

ding. Cold shut, the imperfection in a casting caused by the flowing of liquid metal upon partially chilled metal; also, the imperfect weld in a forging caused by the inadequate heat of one surface under working.

A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.

The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.

The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.

A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. [U. S.] Bartlett.

urope and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight.

o the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.

A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf.

Any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.

of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.

he choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving. The dignifird clergy, out of humanility, have called their thrones by the names of stalls. Bp. Warburton. Loud the monks i…

A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]