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The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state.

Half opaque; only half transparent.

Combined with oxygen only in part. Kirwan.

Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.

Only half alive. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

nal object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body. Perception is only a special kind of knowledge, and sensation a special kind of feeling. . . . Knowledge and feeling, perception and sensation, though always coexistent, are always in the inverse ratio of each other. Sir W. Hamilton.…

which has sensibility; a sensitive being. [R.] This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles. Burton.

The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism.

Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.

rred with it, as formerly in Russia. In England, at least from the reign of Henry II, one only, and that the inferior species [of villeins], existed . . . But by the customs of France and Germany, persons in this abject state seem to have been called serfs, and distinguished from villeins, who were only bound to fixed…

of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only. [Written also serjeanty.] Grand sergeanty, a particular kind of tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like. Tomlins. Cowell.…

ngs viii. 11. (Rev. Ver.) The father thought the time drew on Of setting in the world his only son. Dryden.

ion of the Northwestern United States. It somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above, gray beneath. It constitutes the family Haplodontidæ. Called also boomer, showt'l, and mountain beaver.

k. White, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees, or shades and mixtures, as green only in by the eyes. Locke.

Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.

ing . . . whether those who lectured him were such fools as they professed to be, or were only shamming. Macaulay.

To render more shrill or piercing. Inclosures not only preserve sound, but increase and sharpen it. Bacon.

The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.

Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense. "A sheer impossibility." De Quincey. It is not a sheer advantage to have several strings to one's bow. M. Arnold.

A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard. The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove. Chapman.