SEMI-ANNUALLY
SEMI-AN'NUALLY, adverb Every half year.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SEMI-ANNULAR
SEMI-AN'NULAR, adjective [Latin semi and annulus, a ring.] Having the figure of a half circle; that is, half round.
SEMI-APERTURE
SEMI-AP'ERTURE, noun [semi and aperture.] The half of an aperture.
SEMI-ARIAN
SEMI-A'RIAN, noun [See Arian.] In ecclesiastical history, the Semi-arians were a branch of the Arians, who in appearance condemned the errors of Arius, but acquiesced in some of...
SEMI-ARIANISM
SEMI-A'RIANISM, noun The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-arians. The semi-arianism of modern times consists in maintaining the Son to have been from all eternity begotten by the...
SEMI-BARBARIAN
SEMI-BARBA'RIAN, adjective [semi and barbarian.] Half savage; partially civilized.
SEMI-CASTRATE
SEMI-CAS'TRATE, verb transitive To deprive of one testicle.
SEMI-CASTRATION
SEMI-CASTRA'TION, noun Half castration; deprivation of one testicle.
SEMI-COLUMNAR
SEMI-COLUM'NAR, adjective [semi and columnar.] Like a half column; flat on one side and round on the other; a term of botany, applied to a stem, leaf or petiole.
SEMI-COMPACT
SEMI-COM'PACT, adjective [semi and compact.] Half compact; imperfectly indurated.
SEMI-CRUSTACEOUS
SEMI-CRUSTA'CEOUS, adjective [semi and crustaceous.] Half crustaceous.
SEMI-CYLINDRIC
SEMI-CYLIN'DRIC, adjective [semi and cylindric.] Half cylindrical.
SEMI-CYLINDRICAL
SEMI-CYLIN'DRICAL,
SEMI-DEISTICAL
SEMI-DEIS'TICAL, adjective Half deistical; bordering on deism.
SEMI-DIAMETER
SEMI-DIAM'ETER, noun [semi and diameter.] Half the diameter; a right line or the length of a right line drawn from the center or sphere to its circumference or periphery; a radius.
SEMI-DIAPASON
SEMI-DIAPA'SON, noun [semi and diapason.] In music, an imperfect octave, or an octave diminished by a lesser semitone.
SEMI-DIAPENTE
SEMI-DIAPEN'TE, noun An imperfect fifth; a hemi-diapente.
SEMI-DIAPHANEITY
SEMI-DIAPHANE'ITY, noun [See Semidiaphanous.] Half or imperfect transparency. [Little used.] [Instead of this, translucency is used.]
SEMI-DIAPHANOUS
SEMI-DIAPH'ANOUS, adjective [semi and diaphanous.] Half or imperfecty transparent. [Instead of this, translecent is now used.]
SEMI-DIATESSARON
SEMI-DIATES'SARON, noun [semi and diatessaron.] In music, an imperfect or defective fourth.
SEMI-DITONE
SEM'I-DITONE, noun [semi and It. ditono.] In music, a lesser third, having its terms as 6 to 5; a hemi-ditone.
SEMI-DOUBLE
SEM'I-DOUBLE, noun [semi and double.] In the Romish breviary, an office celebrated with less solemnity than the double ones, but with more than the single ones.
SEMI-FLUID
SEMI-FLU'ID, adjective [semi and fluid.] Imperfectly fluid.
SEMI-FORMED
SEM'I-FORMED, adjective [semi and formed.] Half formed; imperfectly formed; as semi-formed crystals.
SEMI-INDURATED
SEMI-IN'DURATED, adjective [semi and indurated.] Imperfectly indurated or hardened.
SEMI-LAPIDIFIED
SEMI-LAPID'IFIED, adjective [semi and lapidified.] Imperfectly changed into stone.
SEMI-LENTICULAR
SEMI-LENTIC'ULAR, adjective [semi and lenticular.] Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens.