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Of or pertaining to half of a century, or a period of fifty years; as, a semicentennial commemoration.

Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree.

Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time. "The night was senescent." Poe. "With too senescent air." Lowell.

Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines. Gray.

Having small spines; somewhat thorny.

Resembling froth or foam; foaming.

Under the center.

Being in a lower situation, though not directly beneath; as, hills and subjacent valleys.

Growing underneath. [R.] Evelyn.

Not perfectly translucent.

A subchanter.

Slightly woody at the base.

Of or pertaining to sucking. [R.] Paley.

Growing on some other growing thing. [R.] Johnson.

Situated immediately above; as, superjacent rocks.

Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant. Sweet-scented shrub (Bot.), a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries.

Withering, or wasting away.

Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years. -- n.

The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.

Becoming torpid or numb. Shenstone.