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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..

Demiwolf :: Demiwolf (n.) A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf..

Platoon :: Platoon (n.) Now, in the United States service, half of a company..

Semidiurnal :: Semidiurnal (a.) 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..

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

Semiannular :: Semiannular (a.) Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle.

Undivided :: Undivided (a.) Not set off, as a share in a firm; not made actually separate by division; as, a partner, owning one half in a firm, is said to own an undivided half so long as the business continues and his share is not set off to him..

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated..

Half-length :: Half-length (a.) Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture..

Semidetached :: Semidetached (a.) Half detached; partly distinct or separate.

Demivill :: Demivill (n.) A half vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges..

Halved :: Halved (a.) Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate..

Brodekin :: Brodekin (n.) A buskin or half-boot.

Spiegel Iron :: Spiegel iron () A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen..

Bas-relief :: Bas-relief (n.) Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo..

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc..

Whimbrel :: Whimbrel (n.) Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix..

Rood :: Rood (n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.

Leash :: Leash (n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general..

Deminatured :: Deminatured (a.) Having half the nature of another.

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