SEM'IBREVE, [semi and breve; formerly written semibref.] In music, a note of half the duration of time of the breve. It is the measure note by which all others are regulated. It contains the time of two minims, four crotchets, eights quavers, sixteen semiquavers and thirty-two demisemiquavers.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.