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ollin, a like body, is also formed at the same time, and differs from semiglutin by being partly soluble in alcohol.

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

Half logical; partly logical; said of fallacies. Whately.

Half or partly permanent.

An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.

A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.

A road having partly sunken transverse logs (called skids) at intervals of about five feet.

all or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person. The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump. Barrow.

In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.

To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

oe nails, -- used in making gun barrels. -- Stub mortise (Carp.), a mortise passing only partly through the timber in which it is formed. -- Stub nail, an old horseshoe nail; a nail broken off; also, a short, thick nail. -- Stub short, or Stub shot (Lumber Manuf.), the part of the end of a sawn log or plank which is…

A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.

Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy. [R. & Poetic] Subnuvolar lights of evening sharply slant. Milnes.

Partly covered by another charge; -- said of an ordinary or other bearing.

A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.

position for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.

Having two or more digits wholly or partly united. See Syndactylism.

A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava.

mouth or the region of the larynx. In man and most mammals it is a highly vascular organ, partly surrounding the base of the larynx and the upper part of the trachea. -- Thyroid dislocation (Surg.), dislocation of the thigh bone into the thyroid foramen. -- Thyroid foramen, the obturator foramen.

To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. Grew.