Word Meanings - SEMIPELLUCID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem.
Related words: (words related to SEMIPELLUCID)
- CLEARLY
In a clear manner. - TRANSPARENT
transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent - CLEARER
A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison. - CLEAR-HEADED
Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n. - CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
Acute discernment. - CLEAR-SEEING
Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding. - CLEARCOLE
A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding. - CLEAR-CUT
1. Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson. 2. Concisely and distinctly expressed. - CLEARSTARCH
To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin. - CLEARSTARCHER
One who clearstarches. - SEMIPELLUCID
Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem. - CLEARNESS
The quality or state of being clear. Syn. -- Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and - CLEARWING
A lepidop terous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Ægeriadæ, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples. - CLEARAGE
The act of reforming anything; clearance. - CLEAR-SHINING
Shining brightly. Shak. - CLEAR-SIGHTED
Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason - CLEARSTORY; CLERESTORY
The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs. - CLEARING
1. The act or process of making clear. The better clearing of this point. South. 2. A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation. A lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake. J. Burroughs. 3. A method adopted by banks and bankers for making - CLEAREDNESS
The quality of being cleared. Imputed by his friends to the clearedness, by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience. T. Fuller. - CLEARANCE
The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwell tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of - POLYNUCLEAR
Containing many nuclei. - SUBTRANSPARENT
Not perfectly transparent. - PERINUCLEAR
Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm. - CLEAR
cleer, OF. cler, F. clair, fr.L. clarus, clear, broght, loud, distinct, renownwd; perh. akin to L. clamare to call, E. claim. Cf. 1. Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. The stream is so transparent, pure, and - BINUCLEAR; BINUCLEATE
Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells. - MULTINUCLEAR
Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells.