semiaquatic 
semiaquatic (sem"i-a-kwat'ik), (I. In znol. and 
but., living close to water, and sometimes en- 
tering it, but not necessarily existing by it: as, 
the semiaquatic spiders, which run over the 
surface of water, or dive and conceal them- 
selves beneath it; xnnitit/itatic plants, which 
grow between tides, or in pools that periodi- 
cally become dry, etc. 
Semi-Arian (sem-i-a'ri-an), a. and . I. a. Per- 
taining to Semi-Arianism. 
II. ii. In eccles. hist., a member of a body of 
the Arians which arose in the fourth century. 
The Semi- Arians held the strict Arian doctrine that the Son 
was created by the will of the Father, but maintained that 
the Father and the Son are of similar and not of different 
substances. See Ariani, homoit>u#ian, and homoousian. 
Semi-Arianism (sem-i-a'ri-an-izm), n. [< Semi- 
Arian + -ism.] The doctrines or tenets of the 
Semi-Arians. 
semi-articulate (sem"i-ar-tik / u-lat), a. Loose- 
jointed; half-invertebrate. 
A most indescribable thin-bodied semi-articulate but al- 
together helpful kind of a factotum manservant. 
Carlyle, in Fronde, I. 266. 
semi-attached (sem"i-a-taeht'), a. Partially at- 
tached or united ; partially bound by affection, 
interest, or special preference of any kind. 
We would have been semi-attached, as it were. We 
would have locked up that room in either heart where the 
skeleton was, and said nothing about it. 
Thackeray, Level the Widower, ii. 
Semi-Augustinianism (sem-i-a-gus-tin'i-an- 
i/.ni). H. A moderate form of Augustinianism, 
prevalent in the sixth century. 
semi-band (sem'i-band), n. In entom., a band 
of color extending half-way around a part or 
half-way across a wing : as, semi-bands of black 
on the fore wings. Also semifascia. [Rare.] 
semibarbarian (sem*i-bar-ba'ri-an), a. and n. 
I. a. Half-savage ; partially civilized. 
II. n. One who is but partially civilized. 
semibarbaric (sem"i-bar-bar'ik), a. Half-bar- 
barous ; partly civilized : as, semibarbaric dis- 
play. 
semibarbarism (sein-i-bar'ba-rizm), n. The 
state or quality of being semiliarbarous or half- 
civilized. 
semibarbarous (sem-i-bar'ba-rus), a. [< L. 
scmibarbarus, < semi-, half, -f barbarus, bar- 
barous.] Half-civilized. 
semibituminous (sem"i-bi-tu'mi-nus), a. Part- 
ly bituminous, as coal. 
semibreve (sem'i-brev), . [Also semibrief; = 
F. semi-breve = Sp. Pg. semibreve, < It. semibreve, 
< semi-, half, + breve, a short note: see semi- 
and brere, brief.] In music, a whole note, or the 
space of time measured by it. See note 1 , 13. 
Semibreve rest. See reit>, 8 (6> 
semibrief (sem'i-bref), n. Same as semibreve. 
[Obsolete or archaic.] 
Great red coals roll out on the hearth, sparkle a semi- 
brief, . . . and then dissolve into brown ashes. 
S. Judd, Margaret, i. 17. 
semi-bull (sem'i-bul), n. Eccles., a bull issued 
by a pope between the time of his election and 
that of his coronation. A semi-bull has an impres- 
sion on only one side of the seal. After the consecration 
the name of the pope and the date are stamped on the re- 
verse, thus constituting a double bull. 
semi-cadence (sein-i-ka'dens),n. InjH*io,same 
as imperfect cadence (which sec, under cadence). 
semicalcareous (sem'i-kal-ka're-us), a. Partly 
chalky; imperfectly calcareous; approaching 
chalk in substance or appearance. Compare 
conieocalcareous. 
semi-calcined (sem-i-kal'sind), a. Half-cal- 
cined: as, semi-calcined iron. 
semi-canal (sem"i-ka-nar)> n. In zool,,a, chan- 
neled sheath open at one side, so that it does 
not form a complete tube. 
semicartilaginous (sem-i-kiir-ti-laj'i-nus), a. 
Gristly; imperfectly cartilaginous. 
semicastrate (sem-i-kas'trat), v. t. To deprive 
of one testicle. 
semicastration (sem"i-kas-tra'shon), . De- 
privation of one testicle. 
For one [testicle! eufficeth unto generation, as hath been 
observed in semicaftratwn, and ofttimes in carnous rup- 
tures. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 5. 
semicaudate (sem-i-ka'dat), a. Having a small 
or rudimentary tail, as man. See tailed, a. 
semicell (sem'i-sel), n. In bot., one of the two 
parts of a cell which is constricted in the mid- 
dle, as in the Dcsiiti<Hin-r;c. 
semi-centennial (sem"i-sen-ten'i-al), a. and . 
I. a. Occurring at the end of, or celebrating the 
completion of, fifty years, or half a century : as, 
a semi-centennial celebration. 
II. . A semi-eentennlft] celebration. 
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semichoric (sem-i-ko'rik), (i. Partaking some 
what of the character of a chorus, or noting an 
utterance half sung, half spoken. 
semichorus (sem'i-ko-rus), . In music: () 
Either a small number of singers selected for 
lighter effects from all the parts of a large 
chorus, or a chorus made up of fewer than the 
full number of parts, as a male chorus or a fe- 
male chorus: opposed to full chorus. Also 
called small chorus, (b) A movement intended 
to be performed by such a partial chorus. 
semichroine, n. Same as semicrome. 
semicircle (sem'i-ser-kl), n. [= Sp. semicirculo 
= Pg. geiiiicireulo = It. semicircolo, < L. semi- 
drculus, a semicircle, as adj. semicircular, < 
semi-, half, + circulus, circle: see circle.] 1. 
The half of a circle ; the part of a circle com- 
prehended between a diameter and the half of 
a circumference ; also, the half of the circum- 
ference itself. 2. Any body or arrangement 
of objects in the form of a half -circle. 
Looking back, there is Trieste on her hillside, . . . 
backed by the vast semicircle of the Julian Alps. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 87. 
3. An instrument for measuring angles ; a spe- 
cies of theodolite with only half a graduated 
circle ; a graphometer. 
semicircled (sem'i-ser-kld), a. [< semicircle + 
-erf 1 - 2 .] Same as semicircular. 
The flrm fixture of thy foot would give an excellent mo- 
tion to thy gait in a semi-circled farthingale. 
Shalt., M. W. of W., iii. 3. 08. 
semicircular (sem-i-se,r'ku-lar), a. [= F. senii- 
circulaire = Sp. semicircular = Pg. semicircular 
= It. semicircolare, < L. semicirculus, semicircle: 
see semicircle.] 1. Having the form of a half- 
circle. 2. Specifically, in anat., noting the 
three canals of the internal ear, whatever their 
actual shape. They are usually horseshoe- 
shaped or oval, and sometimes quite irregular. 
See canal 1 , and cuts under Crocodilia, ear*, and 
periotic. 
semicircularly (sem-i-ser'ku-lar-li), adv. In 
the form of a semicircle. 
semicirque (sem'i-serk), n. A semicircle; a 
semicircular hollow. 
Upon a semicirque of turf-clad ground, 
The hidden HOOK discovered to our view 
A mass of rock. Wordsworth, Excursion, iii. 
semiclosure (sem-i-klo'zur), n. Half or partial 
closure. 
Ferrier's experiments on monkeys . . . had the effect 
of " torsion of the lip and semiclosure of the nostril." 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXVII. 519. 
semicolon (sem'i-ko-lon), . [= F. Sp. semicolon 
= GK Sw. Dan. semikolon; as semi- + colon 1 .] 
In gram, and punctuation, the point (;). It is 
used to mark a division of a sentence somewhat more in- 
dependent than that marked by a comma. (See punctua- 
tion.) In old books a mark like the semicolon was often 
used as a mark of abbreviation, being in fact another form 
of the abbreviative character 3, z, in oz., viz., etc.: thus, 
"Senatus populusq; liomani"; and in Greek the semico- 
lon mark (;) is the point of interrogation. 
Caxton had the merit of introducing the Roman point- 
ing as used in Italy ; . . . the more elegant comma sup- 
planted the long, uncouth | ; the colon was a refinement ; 
. . . but the semicolon was a Latin delicacy which the ob- 
tuse English typographer resisted. 
/. D'Israeli, Amen, of Lit., I. 242. 
Semicolon butterfly, the butterfly Polygonia, inlerroga- 
tionis: so called from a silver 
mark on the under side of the 
lower wings which resembles a 
semicolon. [U. S.] 
semi-column (sem'i-kol- 
um), . A half column ; an 
engaged column of which 
one half protrudes from 
the wall. 
semi-columnar (sem"i-ko- 
lum'nar), a. Like a half 
column ; flat on one side 
and rounded on the other : 
applied in botany to a 
stem, leaf, or petiole. 
semi - complete ( sem " i - 
kom-plet'), a. In entom., 
incomplete : applied by 
Linnaeus and the older en- 
tomologists to pupee which 
have only rudiments of 
wings, but otherwise re- 
semble the imago, as in the 
Orthoptera, ffeinij>tera,etc. 
Semi-complete metamor- 
phosis, metamorphosis in which 
the pupa is semi-complete. The 
terms incomplete and tublnami- 
M>Mta^^OWed 
instead. See hemmie 
semidiapente 
semiconfluent (sem-i-kon'flo-ent), a. In pa- 
tl/nl., half-confluent: noting specifically certain 
cases of smallpox in which some of the pustules 
run together but most of them do not. See 
niiillnent, 4 (b). 
semiconjugate (sem-i-kon'jo-gat), a. Conju- 
gate and halved: thus, semininjiiiiate diameters 
are conjugate semi-diameters. 
semiconscious (sem-i-kon'shus), a. Imper- 
fectly conscious; not fully conscious. De 
semiconvergent (sem"i-kon-ver'jent), a. Con- 
vergent as a series, while the series of moduli 
is not convergent: thus, 1 i + i i + . . . 
is a semiconvergent series. 
semicopet (sem'i-kop), . [< ME. semi-cope, 
ni'iiiji-cope; < semi- + cope 1 .] An outer garment 
worn by some of the monastic clergy in the 
middle ages. 
Of double worsted was his semy-cope, 
That roundede as a belle out of the presse. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 262. 
Semi-columns (Roman).- 
semicorneous (sem-i-kor'ne-us), a. Partly 
horny ; imperfectly corneous ; intermediate 
between horn and ordinary skin or hair, as 
the horns of the giraffe and American ante- 
lope. 
semicoronate (sem-i-kor'o-nat), a. In entom., 
having a semicoronet; half surrounded by a line 
of spines, bristles, or other projections Semi- 
coronate prolegs, prolegs with a semicircle of crotchets 
or little hooks on the edge of the apical surface or sole. 
semicoronet (sem-i-kor'o-net), n. In entom., a 
line of spines, bristles, or other projections half 
surrounding a part, especially at the apex. 
semicostiferous (sem"i-kos-tif'e-rus), a. Half 
bearing a rib ; having a costal demifacet that 
is, sharing with another vertebra a costal artic- 
ulation. Most vertebras which bear ribs are 
semicostiferous. 
Seventh cervical semicostiferous, without vertebrarterial 
canal. Coues, Monographs of K. A. Rodentia (1877), p. 549. 
semicritical (sem-i-krit'i-kal), a. Related to 
a differential equation and' its criticoids as a 
seminvariant is related to an algebraic equation 
and its invariants. 
semicroma (sem-i-kro'ma), . A variant of 
semicrome. 
semicrome (sem'i-krom), n. [< It. semicroma, 
< semi-, half, + croma, croma.] In music, a 
sixteenth-note. Some old writers apply the 
name to the eighth-note. Also semichrome, 
semicroma. 
semi-crotchett, . [Early mod. E. semie crochet; 
< semi- + crotchet.] Same as semicrome. Florio. 
semicrustaceous (sem' / i-krus-ta'shius), a. 
Half hard or crusty (and half membranous): 
said of the fore wings of hemipterous insects. 
semi-crystalline (sem-i-kris'ta-lin), a. Half or 
imperfectly crystallized. 
semicubical (sem-i-ku'bi-kal), . Of the de- 
gree whose exponent is f : now used only in the 
expression semicubical parabola that is, a pa- 
rabola whose equation is / = #3. See parabola 2 . 
semicubium, semicupium (sem-i-ku'bi-um, -pi- 
um), n. [= It. semicnpio, < ML. semicupium, < 
L. semicupse, a half tun, < semi-, half, + cupa, a 
tub, tun : see cup, coop.] A half bath, or a bath 
that covers only the legs and hips. [Rare.] 
semicylinder (sem-i-sil'in-der), n. Half a cyl- 
inder in longitudinal section. 
semicylindric (sem"i-si-lin'drik), a. Same as 
semifijUndrical. 
semicylindrical (sem"i-si-lin'dri-kal), a. 
Shaped like or resembling a cylinder divided 
longitudinally; of semicircular section Semi- 
cylindrical leaf, in hot., a leaf that is elongated, flat 
on one side, and round on the other. Semicylindrical 
vaulting. See cylindrical vaulting, under cytindric. 
semidefinite (sem-i-def'i-nit), a. Half definite. 
Semidefinite some, some in the sense of an exclusion 
of :i ii ; some, but not all ; some only. 
semidemisemiqua ver (sem - i - dem - i - sem - i - 
kwa'ver), . In musical notation, same as liemi- 
di inisemiquaver. 
semidependent (sem // i-de-pen'deut), a. Half 
dependent or depending. 
semidesert (sem-i-dez'ertl, a. Half-desert; 
mostly barren, with a sparse vegetation. 
semi-detached (sem"i-de-tacht'),n. Partly sep- 
arated : noting one of two houses joined toge- 
ther by a party-wall, but detached from other 
buildings : as, a semi-detached villa. 
semidiapason (sem-i-di-a-pa'zon), . In meili- 
ei'al music, a diminished octave. 
semidiapente (sem-i-di-a-pen'te), n. Innifdie- 
ral music, a diminished fifth. 
