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An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical reprresentation; type. The law having a shadow of good things to come. Heb. x. 1. [Types] and shadows of that destined seed. Milton.

. Should is everywhere used in the same connection and the same senses as shall, as its imperfect. It also expresses duty or moral obligation; as, he should do it whether he will or not. In the early English, and hence in our English Bible, shall is the auxiliary mainly used, in all the persons, to express simple futur…

Not deep in tone. [R.] The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring. Bacon.

Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.

The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding. 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.

Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. Fuller. Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital. -- Sick bed, the bed upon which a person…

Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. How silent is this town! Shak.

Whole; perfect; unhurt; uninjured. [Obs.] The inviolable body stood sincere. Dryden.

A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion. Suffer not your faith to be shaken by the sophistries of skeptics. S. Clarke.

revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the Christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of God. Let no . . . secret skepticism lead any one to doubt whether this blessed prospect will be realized. S. Miller.

To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely. Slubber not business for my sake. Shak.

In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner. [Low] Drayton.

Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. -- n.

es in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.

ne powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke.

Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship.

ecific medicine in cases of malaria. In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of the science. Coleridge. Specific character (Nat. Hist.), a characteristic or characteristics distinguishing one species from every other species of the same genus. -- Specific disease (Med.) (a) A disease which prod…

Rounded like a sphere; sphere-shaped; hence, symmetrical; complete; perfect.

To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect. Tennyson.

A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes. Oblate spheroid, Prolate spheroid. See Oblate, Prolate, and Ellipsoid.