Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SELVES, a. [or pron. Plur. of Self.]

SEM'A-PHORE, n.

A telegraph.

SEM-A-PHOR'IC-AL-LY, adv.

by means of a telegraph.

SEM'BLA-BLE, a. [Fr.]

Like; similar; resembling. [Not in use.] – Shak.

SEM'BLA-BLY, adv.

In like manner. [Not in use.] – Shak.

SEM'BLANCE, n. [Fr. id.; It. sembianza; Sp. semeja and semejanza; from the root of similar.]

1. Likeness; resemblance; actual similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue. The semblances and imitations of shells. – Woodward.
2. Appearance; show; figure; form. Their semblance kind, and mild their gestures were. – Fairfax.

SEM'BLANT, a.

Like; resembling. [Not in use.] – Prior.

SEM'BLANT, n.

Show; figure; resemblance. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

SEM'BLA-TIVE, a.

Resembling; fit; suitable; according to. And all is semblatives a woman's part. [Not in use.] – Shak.

SEM'BLE, v.t. [Fr. sembler.]

To imitate; to represent or to make similar. Where sembling art way carve the fair effect. [Not in use.] – Prior.

SE-MES'TER, n. [L. semestris, sex, six, and mensis, month.]

A period or term of six months. – Ger. Universities.

SEM'I, a. [L. semi, Gr. ἡμι, in composition, signifies half.]

SEM-I-A-CID'I-FI-ED, a. [or pp.]

Half acidified. [See Acidify.]

SEM-I-AM-PLEX'I-CAUL, a. [L. semi, amplexus, or amplector, to embrace, and caulis, stem.]

Partially amplexicaul. In botany, embracing the stem half around, as a leaf. – Martyn.

SEM-I-AN'NU-AL, a. [semi and annual.]

Half yearly.

SEM-I-AN'NU-LAR, a. [L. semi and annulus, a ring.]

Having the figure of a half circle; that is, half round. – Grew.

SEM-I-AP'ER-TURE, n. [semi and aperture.]

The half of an aperture.

SEM-I-A'RI-AN, a.

Pertaining to semi-arianism.

SEM-I-A'RI-AN, n. [See Arian.]

In ecclesiastical history, the Semi-arians were a branch of the Arians, who in appearance condemned the errors of Arius, but acquiesced in some of his principles, disguising them under more moderate terms. They 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. – Encyc.

SEM-I-A'RI-AN-ISM, n.

The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-arians. The semi-arianism of modern times consist in maintaining the Son to have been from all eternity be gotten by the will of the Father. – Encyc.

SEM-I-BAR-BA'RI-AN, a. [semi and barbarian.]

Half savage; partially civilized. – Mitford.

SEM'I-BREVE, n. [semi and breve; formerly written Semi-bref.]

In music, a note of half the duration or time of the breve, a note not now in use. The semibreve is the longest note now used, and the measure note by which all others are regulated. It contains the time of two minims, four crotchets, eight quavers, sixteen semiquavers and thirty-two demisemiquavers.

SEM-I-CAL'CIN-ED, a. [semi and calcine.]

Half calcined; as, semi-calcined iron. – Kirwan.

SEM-I-CAS'TRATE, v.t.

To deprive of one testicle.

SEM-I-CAS-TRA'TION, n.

Half castration; deprivation of one testicle. – Brown.