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Hemitropous :: Hemitropous (a.) Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule.

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge..

Doted :: Doted (a.) Half-rotten; as, doted wood..

Pink :: Pink (a.) Half-shut; winking.

Ridgeling :: Ridgeling (n.) A half-castrated male animal.

Forte :: Forte (n.) The stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt; -- opposed to foible.

Gazet :: Gazet (n.) A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents..

Halve :: Halve (n.) A half.

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.

Blucher :: Blucher (n.) A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blucher..

Bezant :: Bezant (n.) A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants..

Bisulphate :: Bisulphate (n.) A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate..

Semidiaphanous :: Semidiaphanous (a.) Half or imperfectly transparent; translucent.

Broadcloth :: Broadcloth (n.) A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide..

Pubis :: Pubis (n.) The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint..

Harquebuse :: Harquebuse (n.) A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock..

Semiamplexicaul :: Semiamplexicaul (a.) Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf..

Liquidator :: Liquidator (n.) An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company..

Dichotomy :: Dichotomy (n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures..

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