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Imperfect or partial transparency.

Half or imperfectly transparent.

Always fresh; evergreen. [R.] Smart.

To entertain with a serenade.

One who serenades.

A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject; a serenade. Or serenate, which the starved lover sings To his pround fair. Milton.

Bright; clear; unabscured; as, a serene sky. The moon serene in glory mounts the sky. Pope. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. Gray.

In a serene manner; clearly. Now setting Phoebus shone serenely bright. Pope.

Serenity. Feltham.

Serenity. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace. A general peace and serenity newly succeeded a general trouble. Sir W. Temple.

Same as Sincerity. Beau & Fl.

and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction. Next where the sirens dwell you plow the seas; Their song is death, and makes destruction please. Pope.

See Siren, 6.

An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.

Any species of Sirenia.

Like, or appropriate to, a siren; fascinating; deceptive. Here's couple of sirenical rascals shall enchant ye. Marton.

To use the enticements of a siren; to act as a siren; to fascinate.

Sisters. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.