Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SEM'I-QUA-VER
SEM-I-QUAD'RATE, or SEM-I-QUAR'TILESEM'I-QUA-VER
SEM'I-QUA-VER, n. [semi and quaver.]
In music, a note of half the duration of the quaver; the sixteenth of the semibreve.
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