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Half-clammed :: Half-clammed (a.) Half-filled.

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..

Demigroat :: Demigroat (n.) A half groat.

Semicircular :: Semicircular (a.) Having the form of half of a circle.

Halfcock :: Halfcock (v. t.) To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.

Demilance :: Demilance (n.) A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer..

Turnover :: Turnover (n.) A semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials..

Formeret :: Formeret (n.) One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.

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..

Parasang :: Parasang (n.) A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles..

Midway :: Midway (adv.) In the middle of the way or distance; half way.

Throttle :: Throttle (v. t.) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated..

Strook :: Strontium (n.) A radioactive isotope of strontium produced by certain nuclear reactions, and constituting one of the prominent harmful components of radioactive fallout from nuclear explosions; also called radiostrontium. It has a half-life of 28 years..

Premaxilla :: Premaxilla (n.) A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxillae become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone..

Jaw :: "Jaw (n.) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast..

Point :: Point (n.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes..

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

Hemiglyph :: Hemiglyph (n.) The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.

Demiman :: Demiman (n.) A half man.

Combust :: Combust (a.) So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun..

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