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Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton.

A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.

Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained. Atterbury.

Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs. Gay.

Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. And leave half-heard the melancholy tale. Pope.

Imperfectly learned.

Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.

In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded. Temples proud to meet their gods halfway. Young.

To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.

Made perfectly close or air-tight by fusion, so that no gas or spirit can enter or escape; as, an hermetic seal. See Note under Hermetically. Hermetic art, alchemy. -- Hermetic books. (a) Books of the Egyptians, which treat of astrology. (b) Books which treat of universal principles, of the nature and orders of celest…

To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle together. "Huddle up a peace." J. H. Newman. Let him forescat his work with timely care, Which else is huddled when the skies are fair. Dryden. Now, in all has…

Imperfectly digested, matured, or ripened. [Obs.] Bacon.

sk could only exculpate her and not inculpate them -- the probabilities protected them so perfectly. H. James.

o spread through; to permeate; to pervade. [R.] Keats, in whom the moral seems to have so perfectly interfused the physical man, that you might almost say he could feel sorrow with his hands. Lowell.

A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change. Dunglison.

To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.

penser. It need hardly be observed that the explanation of livery which Spenser offers is perfectly correct, but . . . it is no longer applied to the ration or stated portion of food delivered at stated periods. Trench.

s of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

To reform wrongly or imperfectly.

To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.