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Half crustaceous; partially crustaceous.

Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf.

Half barbarous; partially civilized. -- n.

Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.

Partially chaotic.

Half or partially ligneous, as a stem partly woody and partly herbaceous.

Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.

Partially nude; half naked.

Half or partially penniform; as, a semipenniform muscle.

Partially impregnated with phlogiston.

Partially solid.

Partially verticillate.

Partially vitreous.

Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.

ding. Cold shut, the imperfection in a casting caused by the flowing of liquid metal upon partially chilled metal; also, the imperfect weld in a forging caused by the inadequate heat of one surface under working.

A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.

The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.

A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. [U. S.] Bartlett.

urope and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight.

o the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.