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Half or imperfectly transparent.

To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.

Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.

A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons (as the Acipenser huso) found in the of Western Russia. It used for making jellies, as a clarifier, etc. Cheaper forms of gelatin are not unfrequently so called. Called also fish g…

n exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes.

erial (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.

A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.

a." Byron. Glacial phosphoric acid. (Chem.) (a) Metaphosphoric acid in the form of glassy semitransparent masses or sticks. (b) Pure normal phosphoric acid. -- Phosphoric acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, H3PO4, which is the most highly oxidized acid of phosphorus, and forms an important and extensive serie…

prefix signifying half, and sometimes partly or imperfectly; as, semiannual, half yearly; semitransparent, imperfectly transparent.