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Erf :: Erf (n.) A garden plot, usually about half an acre..

Quarterpace :: Quarterpace (n.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace.

Meridian :: Meridian (a.) A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles..

Semiacidified :: Semiacidified (a.) Half acidified.

Finger :: Finger (n.) The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard..

Angelet :: Angelet (n.) A small gold coin formerly current in England; a half angel.

Semipalmated :: Semipalmated (a.) Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves..

Twitter :: Twitter (v. i.) To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.

Bajocco :: Bajocco (n.) A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half..

Tressure :: Tressure (n.) A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter..

Paraplegy :: Paraplegy (n.) Palsy of the lower half of the body on both sides, caused usually by disease of the spinal cord..

Ravelin :: Ravelin (n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon..

Bicarbonate :: Bicarbonate (n.) A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate..

Addition :: Addition (n.) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.

Demigod :: Demigod (n.) A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal..

Piaster :: Piaster (n.) A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See Peso. The Spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents..

Semihistorical :: Semihistorical (a.) Half or party historical.

Jacqueminot :: "Jacqueminot (n.) A half-hardy, deep crimson rose of the remontant class; -- so named after General Jacqueminot, of France..

Kilting :: Kilting (n.) A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one..

Semiannular :: Semiannular (a.) Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle.

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