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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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643 words match “HALF”

SEMICOMPACT a.
Half compact; imperfectly indurated.
SEMICONSCIOUS a.
Half conscious; imperfectly conscious. De Quincey.
SEMICRYSTALLINE a.
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
SEMICUBIUM; SEMICUPIUM n.
A half bath, or one that covers only the lewer extremities and the hips; a sitz-bath; a half bath, or hip bath.
SEMICYLINDRIC; SEMICYLYNDRICAL a.
Half cylindrical.
SEMIDEISTICAL a.
Half deisticsl; bordering on deism. S. Miller.
SEMIDETACHED a.
Half detached; partly distinct or separate. Semidetached house, one of two tenements under a single roof, but separated by a party wall. [Eng.]
SEMIDIAMETER n.
Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.
SEMIDIAPHANEITY n.
Half or imperfect transparency; translucency. [R.] Boyle.
SEMIDIAPHANOUS a.
Half or imperfectly transparent; translucent. Woodward.
SEMIDIURNAL a. 2 definitions
Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day.
SEMIFLEXED a.
Half bent.
SEMIFORM n.
A half form; an imperfect form.
SEMIFORMED a.
Half formed; imperfectly formed; as, semiformed crystals.
SEMIHISTORICAL a.
Half or party historical. Sir G. C. Lewis.
SEMIHORAL a.
Half-hourly.
SEMILENS n.
The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.
SEMILENTICULAR a.
Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens. Kirwan.
SEMILIGNEOUS a.
Half or partially ligneous, as a stem partly woody and partly herbaceous.
SEMILIQUID a.
Half liquid; semifluid.
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