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n. Likeness; representation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In like manner. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Semblable, a. ] 1. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Only semblances or imitations of shells. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. semblant, p. pr. ] 1. Like; resembling. [ Obs. ] Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Seeming, rather than real; apparent. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] 1. Show; appearance; figure; semblance. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

His flatterers made semblant of weeping. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The face. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (Luke xxiv. 5). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And all is semblative a woman's part. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like; resembling. [ Obs. ] T. Hudson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. sembler. See Semblable, a. ] 1. To imitate; to make a representation or likeness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Where sembling art may carve the fair effect. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) It seems; -- chiefly used impersonally in reports and judgments to express an opinion in reference to the law on some point not necessary to be decided, and not intended to be definitely settled in the cause. [ 1913 Webster ]