Semen

se'men, n. See SEMITIC* 520 tfal mark [;] used to indicate a separation between parts or members of a sentence, more distinct than that marked by a comma, and a pause in reading usually of longer duration. — Sem'idiamSter, n. Half of a diameter a right line, or the length o± a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference; a radius.— Sem'i-diaphSnous, -afS-nus, a. Half or imperfectly diaphanous or transparent; translucent. — Semi-fluid, a. Imperfectly fluid. — Semi-lu'nar, -lu'nate, a. Resembling in form a half moon. — Semi-offiSial, a. Not profe edly official, but having some degree of official authority. — Semi-or'dinate, a. (Conic Sections.) The hull of an ordinate. — SemipSdal, a. Containing a half foot.— Semlqua'ver, n. (Mus.) A note of half the duration of the quaver; a 16th note.— Seml-Sax'on, n. A term sometimes given to the Eng. language during the period of transition from Anglo-Saxon into Middle-English, about the 12th and 13th centuries: see Middle-English, under Mid. — Sem'i-spherlc, -ical, a. Having the figure of half a sphere. — Semi-steel, n. Puddled steel. — Semitone, n. (Mas.) Half a tone, — the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale. — Sem'itonlc, a. Pert, to, or consisting of a semitone or of semitones. — Semivowel, w. (Gram.) A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, and sometimes used in language with the value of vowel the sign representing such a sound.