Semicircular canals(Anat.), certain canals of the inner ear. See under Ear.

Semi circumference
(Sem`i cir*cum"fer*ence) n. Half of a circumference.

Semicirque
(Sem"i*cirque) n. A semicircular hollow or opening among trees or hills. Wordsworth.

Semicolon
(Sem"i*co`lon) n. The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.

Semicolumn
(Sem"i*col`umn) n. A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.

Semicolumnar
(Sem`i*co*lum"nar) a. Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.

Semicompact
(Sem`i*com*pact") a. Half compact; imperfectly indurated.

Semiconscious
(Sem`i*con"scious) a. Half conscious; imperfectly conscious. De Quincey.

Semicope
(Sem"i*cope`) n. A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Semi crustaceous
(Sem`i crus*ta"ceous) a. Half crustaceous; partially crustaceous.

Semicrystalline
(Sem`i*crys"tal*line) a. (Min.) Half crystalline; — said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.

Semicubical
(Sem`i*cu"bic*al) a. (Math.) Of or pertaining to the square root of the cube of a quantity.

Semicubical parabola, a curve in which the ordinates are proportional to the square roots of the cubes of the abscissas.

Semicubium
(Sem`i*cu"bi*um Sem`i*cu"pi*um) n. [LL., fr. L. semi half + cupa tub, cask.] A half bath, or one that covers only the lewer extremities and the hips; a sitz-bath; a half bath, or hip bath.

Semicylindric
(Sem`i*cy*lin"dric Sem`i*cy*lyn"dric*al) a. Half cylindrical.

Semideistical
(Sem`i*de*is"tic*al) a. Half deisticsl; bordering on deism. S. Miller.

Semichaotic to Semirecondite

Semichaotic
(Sem`i*cha*ot"ic) a. Partially chaotic.

Semichorus
(Sem"i*cho`rus), n. (Mus.) A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir.

Semi-Christianized
(Sem`i-Chris"tian*ized) a. Half Christianized.

Semicircle
(Sem"i*cir`cle) n.

1. (a) The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference. (b) A semicircumference.

2. A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference.

3. An instrument for measuring angles.

Semicircled
(Sem"i*cir`cled) a. Semicircular. Shak.

Semicircular
(Sem`i*cir"cu*lar) a. Having the form of half of a circle. Addison.


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