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A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixsteenth note.

An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.

Half radial.

Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.

Half savage.

A half sound; a low tone. [Obs.] "Soft he cougheth with a semisoun." Chaucer.

Having the figure of a half sphere. Kirwan.

Formed like a half spheroid.

The tangent of half an arc.

Half terete.

Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

Lit., half-tontine; -- used to designate a form of tontine life insurance. See Tontine insurance. --Sem`i*ton*tine", n.

The half of a transept; as, the north semitransept of a church.

Half or imperfectly transparent.

Only half alive. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.

Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.

Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. -- n.

A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.

te or tone (Mus.), the major seventh note of any scale; -- so called because, being but a half step below the octave, or key tone, and naturally leading up to that, it makes the ear sensible of its approaching sound. Called also the leading tone. -- Sensible horizon. See Horizon, n., 2. (a).