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Show 5 E SE The force of this inftrument confifts in the dif St'mMBrant. #. /. Show ; figure; refemNot in ufe blance ; reprefentation Her purpofe was not fuch as the did feign Ne vet her perfon fuch as it was feeh Ful Fairy Queen fecretly unfeen ITY. 7. /. [ /emi and diSEMIDIAPHAN aphaneity.] Half tranfparency; imperfect tranfparency tho® the fubftanc lively is the femblant The tran{parency or femidiaphaneity of the fu Spenfer dead adj. [ from femblant. SE'MBLATIVE Suitable ; accommodate ; fit; refem bling perficial corpufcles of bigger bodies, may have a intereft in the production of their colours Boyle on Colours Semipia'prANOUS. adj. [ femi and diaphanous.] Half tranfparent; imperfectl Diana's li Is not more fmooth and ruby ; thy fmall pip Is as the maiden's organ fhrill and found And all is femblative a woman's part tranfparent Shakfpeare's Tawelfth Night 'T ¥o SE'MBLE. w. n. [ fembler, Fr. Littl reprefent ; to make a likenefs Another plate, finely variegated with a femidiaphanous grey or fky, yellow and brown Woodward on Foffils Se'MIDOUBLE. 7. /. [/femi and double.] I th ufed Let Europe, fav'd, the column high ereét Than Trajan's higher, or than Antonine's Where fembling art may carve the fair cffec And full achievement of thy great defigns. Prior SE'MI n. /. [ Latin. A word which ufed in compofition, fignifies half: as Jemicircle, half a circle SEMIA'NNULAR. adj. [ femi, and annulus fomewha a femiannular figure SE"MIBREF flenderer . /. [ femibreve French. Semibref is a note in mufick relating to time and is the laft in augmentation It is commonl called the mafter-note or meaiure-note or time note, as being of a certain determinate meafure o length of time by itfelf5 and all the other note of augmentation and diminution are adjufted to it value Harris He takes my hand, and as a ftill which ftay A [emibref *twixt each drop, he niggardly As loth to enrich me, fo tells many a lye. Donne Black brow Become fome women beft, fo they bein a femicircle Or a half moon, made with a pen SemICI'RCLED Qadj. [ femi and circuSemici'rcutar. § /ar.] Half round The firm fixture of thy foot would give an ex cellent ‘motio thingale The rainbo "falling upon to thy gait, in a femicircled far Skakefpeare is caufed by the rays of the fu rorid and oppofite cloud, whereo fome refleéted, others refratted, beget the famicir cular variety we call the rainbow Br Vulg Err The feas are inclofed between the two femicircular moles that furround it Addifon on Italy Semico'LoN. #. /. [ femi and xiney.] Hal a colon; a point made thus [;] t note a greater paufe than that of a com ma ‘SEMIDIA'METER 7. [. [ femi and diame ter.] Half the line which, drawn throug the centre of a circle, divides it int two equal parts; a ftraight line draw from the circumference to the center o a circle Their difference is as little confiderabl Jesidiameter of the carth in two meafure as of th higheft heaven, the one taken from the furface o the carth, the other from its centre ; the difproportion is jult aothing More the double ones tha an office wit celebrate lefs foye bu Having a femifloret culus, Latin. Se'MIFLORET #. / [fem Bailey and floret. an half flourifh florifts Amon whic is tubulous at the beginning like a floret, and aftewards expanded in the for Bailey ofa tongue SemrirLu'ip. adj. [ femi and fluid.] Imperfeétly fluid Phlegm, or petuite, is a fort of femifluid 5 it being fo far folid that one part draws along fevera other parts adhering to it, which doth not happe in a perfet fluid ; and yet no part will draw th Arbuth whole mafs, as happens in a perfeét folid SemiLu'~sar Qadj SEMILU'NARY. [ femilunaire Fr femi and Juna, Latin. Refembling in form a half moon The eyes are guarded with a femilunar ridge Se'mMmiMETAL. 2. /i [ femi an Half metal ; imperfet metal Greaw metal. Semimetals arc metallic foflils, heavy, opaque, o a bright glittering furface, not malleable under th Shakefpeare Has he given the ly ‘In circle, or oblique, or femicircle ‘Or direét parallel Shakefpeare The chains that held my left leg gave me the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a femicircle Sawift fuc with more than the fingle ones. Bailey SemirrLo'scurovus. adj. [ femi and flo/ S8eMIC1'RCLE. . [ [femicirculus, Lat. fem and c/rcle. A half round ; part of -circle divided by the diameter breviary ar a lemnit and o Greaw's Mufeum Romif feaft a ring.] Half round Another boar tufk Wilkins the fpokes But under fimple thew, and femblant plain Lurks falfe Duefla proportion of diftance betwixt the femidiameter o the cylinder and the femidiamerer of the rundle wit as quickfilver bifmuth, zink hammer arfenicks antimony, cobalt, th with its ore calamine to thefe may be added the femimetallic ments, tutty and pampholyx SE'MINAL. adj [ feminal recreHill French; fem: Bt u cut them off about a ground, and plant them like quickg 2. Th time Place. or Origing &""%Lffv_h',{, any thing is brought ; This frratum is expandcd,fc vingfor integument, and being the fmina}y onEiags that furnifheth forth matter fo the for;x)';m{‘!mm Increment of animal and vegetable bo je: at;;n 3. Seminal ftate 1. Belonging to feed Contained in the feed ; radical Had eur fenfes never prefented us with thof obvious feminal principles of apparent generations we fhould never have fufpeéted that a plant or animal would have proceeded from fuch unlikely ma The hand of God, who firf bath wifely contrived 'them in thei:t;:g }l:;'q and where they beft maintain th fpecies 4. Principle ; caufality ntentlon%ffl e of nafty f:olks and beggars Harveyon th, Pl 5. Breeding-place ; place o? educatif;; fro whenc fcholars are tranfplame( into life Tt was the feat of the greateft monarchy, md th Jeminary of the greateft men of the world, whigi was heathen 'l'[‘he.im}s of court muft be the worf infitye [eminarie in any Chriftian country Sui SEMINA‘TION, n. /. [from/émino,Lat' The att of fowing SEMINI:FI CAL. ) adj. [jémn and fais, § SEMINI'FICK Latin.] Produtiveo feed adhere unto Ariftotle SEMINIFICA'TION 7. / ro Seminification is the propagation from the feedo Hale's Origin of Maskisd feminal parts Semriora'cous. adj. [ femi and opac Latin.] Half dark Semigpacous bodies are fuch as, loo]_(ed uponina ordinary light, and not held betwixtit and thee are not wont to be difcyiminated from the reo : By opacous bodies SEMIO'RDINATE tions. #. /i [In conick fec A line drawn at right anglesto and biffe&ted by, the axis, and reachin from one fide of the fection to another the half of which is properly th o d nd th c l e n i b ordinate Harris SEMipELLU'CID dus, Latin. tran{parent adj. [[emi 20 P‘f Half clear ; imperiet o t i f femipelluc % : 3 / j a U U I S E p SEM any more than human life be yond the ftrength of the feminal virtue, yet we ma manage a fickly conftitution, and preferve a ftron Sawift SEMINA'LITY. n /. [from femen, Latin. 1. The nature of {eed As though there were a feminality in urine, o that, like the feed, it carricd with it the idea o every part, they conceive we behold therein th anatomy of every particle Broawn 2. The power of being produced In the feeds of wheat there lieth obfcurely th Jeminality of darnel SE'MINARY 2. Brown's Vulgar Errours [Jfeminaire, Fr. femina rium, from femino, Latin. ¢ o7 dogs that fhall inquire into the generality, will rathe Though we canrot prolong the period ofa commonwealth beyond the decree of heaven, or th one whic We are made to believe, that in the fourteent year males are feminifical and pubefcent; butk Glanwille's Scepfis date of its nature Nothing fubminiftrates. apter mat er to b verted into peftilent feminaries, fooner thay A light gre fame complexion with th terials SEMIPE'DAL. adj. [/emi and pedits L 44 tin.] Containing halfa f{)Ot.d #nis, Latin, 2 So m Jeminaries Some, at the firft tranfplantip )2 1. The ground where any thing is fown to be afterwards tranfplanted; feed-plot. Jpicuus, Latin. Half tranfparent; perfe&ly clear fe comp o t fl i f h e a A kind o ?"m mag) tir € on bu n a g o cryftal 0! o almo e bl pa o a s o c p r p m horns. Lt }W?fi] Tlflr c lour of F {cfome cow l n SE' roof of a fingl h n SBPMIQ,UA'DR SEMIQUA'RTILE plane o forty-fiv SF.N?I(LUA'VER & Baily Awt n. /o [In m.ufic:- containin Ve |
