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Semester (s�mĕstẽr), n. [G., from L. semestris half-yearly; sex six + mensis a month.] A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or university which divides the year into two terms.
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Semi- (?). [L. semi; akin to Gr. ���, Skr. sāmi-, AS. sām-, and prob. to E. same, from the division into two parts of the same size. Cf. , .] A prefix signifying half, and sometimes partly or imperfectly; as, semiannual, half yearly; semitransparent, imperfectly transparent.
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☞ The prefix semi is joined to another word either with the hyphen or without it. In this book the hyphen is omitted except before a capital letter; as, semiacid, semiaquatic, semi-Arian, semiaxis, semicalcareous.
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Semiacid (?), a. Slightly acid; subacid.
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Semiacidified (?), a. Half acidified.
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Semiadherent (?), a. Adherent part way.
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Semiamplexicaul (?), a. (Bot.) Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf.
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Semiangle (?), n. (Geom.) The half of a given, or measuring, angle.
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Semiannual (?), a. Half-yearly.
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Semiannually, adv. Every half year.
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Semiannular (?), a. Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle. Grew.
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Semi-Arian (?), n. [See .] (Eccl. Hist.) A member of a branch of the Arians which did not acknowledge the Son to be consubstantial with the Father, that is, of the same substance, but admitted him to be of a like substance with the Father, not by nature, but by a peculiar privilege.
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Semi-Arian, a. Of or pertaining to Semi-Arianism.
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Semi-Arianism (?), n. The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Arians.
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Semiaxis (?), n. (Geom.) One half of the axis of an �llipse or other figure.
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Semibarbarian (?), a. Half barbarous; partially civilized. -- n. One partly civilized.
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Semibarbaric (?), a. Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display.
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Semibarbarism (?), n. The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.
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Semibarbarous (?), a. Half barbarous.
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Semibreve (?), n. [Pref. semi- + breve: cf. F. semi-breve, It. semibreve.] [Formerly written semibref.] (Mus.) A note of half the time or duration of the breve; -- now usually called a whole note. It is the longest note in general use.
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Semibrief (?), n. (Mus.) A semibreve. [R.]
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Semibull (?), n. (R.C.Ch.) A bull issued by a pope in the period between his election and coronation.
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Semicalcareous (?), a. Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.
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Semicalcined (?), a. Half calcined; as, semicalcined iron.
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Semicastrate (?), v. t. To deprive of one testicle. -- Semicastration (#),n.
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Semicentennial (?), a. Of or pertaining to half of a century, or a period of fifty years; as, a semicentennial commemoration.
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Semicentennial, n. A fiftieth anniversary.
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Semichaotic (?), a. Partially chaotic.
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Semichorus, n. (Mus.) A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir.
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Semi-Christianized (?), a. Half Christianized.
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Semicircle (?), n. 1. (a) The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference. (b) A semicircumference.
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2. A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference.
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3. An instrument for measuring angles.
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Semicircled (?), a. Semicircular. Shak.
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Semicircular (?), a. Having the form of half of a circle. Addison.
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Coloq. Semicircular canals (Anat.), certain canals of the inner ear. See under .
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Semi circumference (?), n. Half of a circumference.
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Semicirque (?), n. A semicircular hollow or opening among trees or hills. Wordsworth.
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Semicolon (?), n. The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.
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Semicolumn (?), n. A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.
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Semicolumnar (?), a. Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
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Semicompact (?), a. Half compact; imperfectly indurated.
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Semiconscious (?), a. Half conscious; imperfectly conscious. De Quincey.
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Semicope (?), n. A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Semi crustaceous (?), a. Half crustaceous; partially crustaceous.
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Semicrystalline (?), a. (Min.) Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
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Semicubical (?), a. (Math.) Of or pertaining to the square root of the cube of a quantity.
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Coloq. Semicubical parabola , a curve in which the ordinates are proportional to the square roots of the cubes of the abscissas.
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{ Semicubium (?), Semicupium (?), } n. [LL., fr. L. semi half + cupa tub, cask.] A half bath, or one that covers only the lewer extremities and the hips; a sitz-bath; a half bath, or hip bath.
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{ Semicylindric (?), Semicylyndrical (?) } a. Half cylindrical.
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Semideistical (?), a. Half deisticsl; bordering on deism. S. Miller.
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Semidemiquaver (?), n. (Mus.) A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.
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Semidetached (?), a. Half detached; partly distinct or separate.
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Coloq. Semidetached house , one of two tenements under a single roof, but separated by a party wall. [Eng.]
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Semidiameter (?), n. (Math.) Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.
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Semidiapason (?), n. (Mus.) An imperfect octave.
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Semidiapente (?), n. (Mus.) An imperfect or diminished fifth. Busby.
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Semidiaphaneity (?), n. Half or imperfect transparency; translucency. [R.] Boyle.
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Semidiaphanous (?), a. Half or imperfectly transparent; translucent. Woodward.
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Semidiatessaron (?), n. (Mus.) An imperfect or diminished fourth. [R.]
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Semi-Diesel (?), a. Designating an internal-combustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ignition by a blast-lamp until the engine is running, when it is, ordinarily, kept red hot by the heat of combustion.
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Semiditone (?), n. [Pref. semi- + ditone: cf. It. semiditono. Cf. .] (Gr. Mus.) A lesser third, having its terms as 6 to 5; a hemiditone. [R.]
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Semidiurnal (?), a. 1. Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day.
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2. Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc.
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Semidome (?), n. (Arch.) A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere.
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Semidouble (?), n. (Eccl.) An office or feast celebrated with less solemnity than the double ones. See , n., 8.
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Semidouble, a. (Bot.) Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower.
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Semifable (?), n. That which is part fable and part truth; a mixture of truth and fable. De Quincey.
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Semiflexed (?), a. Half bent.
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Semifloret (?), n. (Bot.) See .
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Semifloscular (?), a. Semiflosculous.
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Semifloscule (?), n. (Bot.) A floscule, or florest, with its corolla prolonged into a strap-shaped petal; -- called also semifloret.
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Semiflosculous (?), a. (Bot.) Having all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion.
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Semifluid (?), a. Imperfectly fluid. -- n. A semifluid substance.
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Semiform (?), n. A half form; an imperfect form.
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Semiformed (?), a. Half formed; imperfectly formed; as, semiformed crystals.
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Semiglutin (?), n. (Physiol. Chem.) A peptonelike body, insoluble in alcohol, formed by boiling collagen or gelatin for a long time in water. Hemicollin, a like body, is also formed at the same time, and differs from semiglutin by being partly soluble in alcohol.
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Semihistorical (?), a. Half or party historical. Sir G. C. Lewis.
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Semihoral (?), a. Half-hourly.
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Semiindurated (?), a. Imperfectly indurated or hardened.
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Semilapidified (?), a. Imperfectly changed into stone. Kirwan.
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Semilens (?), n. (Opt.) The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.
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Semilenticular (?), a. Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens. Kirwan.
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Semiligneous (?), a. Half or partially ligneous, as a stem partly woody and partly herbaceous.
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Semiliquid (?), a. Half liquid; semifluid.
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Semiliquidity (?), n. The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity.
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Semilogical (?), a. Half logical; partly logical; said of fallacies. Whately.
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Semilor (?), n. [Cf. G. similor, semilor.] A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc. See .
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Semilunar (?), a. Shaped like a half moon.
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Coloq. Semilunar bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus; the lunar. See , n. -- Coloq. Semilunar valves , or Coloq. Sigmoid valves (Anat.), the valves at the beginning of the aorta and of the pulmonary artery which prevent the blood from flowing back into the ventricle.
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Semilunar, n. (Anat.) The semilunar bone.
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Semilunary (?), a. Semilunar.
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Semilunate (?), a. Semilunar.
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Semilune (?), n. (Geom.) The half of a lune.
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Semimetal (?), n. (Chem.) An element possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree and not malleable, as arsenic, antimony, bismuth, molybdenum, uranium, etc. [Obs.]
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Semimetallic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.
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Semimonthly (?) a. Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment. -- n. Something done or made every half month; esp., a semimonthly periodical. -- adv. In a semimonthly manner; at intervals of half a month.
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Semimute (?), a. Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.
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Semimute (?), n. A semimute person.
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Seminal (?), a. [L. seminalis, fr. semen, seminis, seed, akin to serere to sow: cf. F. seminal. See to scatter seed.] 1. Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.
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2. Contained in seed.
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3. Hence: Holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; serving as a source, or first principle; giving rise to related ideas or results; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue; a seminal discovery.
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The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
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Coloq. Seminal leaf (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden. -- Coloq. Seminal receptacle . (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Seminal (?), n. A seed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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Seminality (?), n. The quality or state of being seminal. Sir T. Browne.
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Seminar (?), n. [G. See , n.] A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- formerly called also seminary, now seldom used in this sense.
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{ Seminarian (?), Seminarist (?), } n. [Cf. F. séminariste.] A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.
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Seminary (?), n.; pl. Seminaries (#). [L. seminarium, fr. seminarius belonging to seed, fr. semon, seminis, seed. See .] 1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.] Mortimer.
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But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds.
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2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. [Obs.] Woodward.
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3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
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4. Seminal state. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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5. Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.] Harvey.
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6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
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Seminary, a. [L. seminarius.] Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]
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Seminate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seminated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seminating.] [L. seminatus, p. p. of seminare to sow, fr. semen, seminis, seed.] To sow; to spread; to propagate. [R.] Waterhouse.
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Semination (?), n. [L. seminatio: cf. F. sémination.] 1. The act of sowing or spreading. [R.]
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2. (Bot.) Natural dispersion of seeds. Martyn.
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Semined (?), a. [See .] Thickly covered or sown, as with seeds. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Seminiferous (?), a. [L. semen, semenis, seed -ferous.] (Biol.) Seed-bearing; producing seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles.
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{ Seminific (?), Seminifical (?), } a. [L. semen, seminis, seed + facere to make.] (Biol.) Forming or producing seed, or the male generative product of animals or of plants.
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Seminification (?), n. Propagation from seed. [R.] Sir M. Hale.
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Seminist (?), n. (Biol.) A believer in the old theory that the newly created being is formed by the admixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female.
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Seminoles (?), n. pl.; sing. Seminole (�). (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly occupied Florida, where some of them still remain. They belonged to the Creek Confideration.
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Seminose (?), n. [L. semen seed + glucose.] (Chem.) A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup having a sweetish-bitter taste.
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Seminude (?), a. Partially nude; half naked.
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Seminymph (?), n. (Zoöl.) The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state.
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Semioccasionally (?), adv. Once in a while; on rare occasions. [Colloq. U. S.]
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Semiofficial (?), a. Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. -- Semiofficially, adv.
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{ Semiography (?), Semiology (?), Semiological (?) }. Same as , , .
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Semiopacous (?), a. Semiopaque.
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Semiopal (?), n. (Min.) A variety of opal not possessing opalescence.
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Semiopaque (?), a. Half opaque; only half transparent.
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Semiorbicular (?), a. Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.
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Semiotic (?), a. Same as .
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Semiotics (?), n. Same as .
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Semioval (?), a. Half oval.
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Semiovate (?), a. Half ovate.
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Semioxygenated (?), a. Combined with oxygen only in part. Kirwan.
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Semipagan (?), a. Half pagan.
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{ Semipalmate (?), Semipalmated (?), } a. (Zoöl.) Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under .
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Semiparabola (?), n. (Geom.) One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve.
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Semiped (?), n. [L. semipes, semipedis; pref. semi- half + pes, pedis, a foot.] (Pros.) A half foot in poetry.
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Semipedal (?), a. (Pres.) Containing a half foot.
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Semi-Pelagian (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of John Cassianus, a French monk (died about 448), who modified the doctrines of Pelagius, by denying human merit, and maintaining the necessity of the Spirit's influence, while, on the other hand, he rejected the Augustinian doctrines of election, the inability of man to do good, and the certain perseverance of the saints.
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Semi-Pelagian, a. Of or pertaining to the Semi-Pelagians, or their tenets.
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