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semisphaerium

semisphaerium [LL], semisphaera, hemisphere. b (as part of musical instrument) bridge. emis quippe semis est, sicut emisperium semispera Latina lingua intelligitur, i. e. dimidia pars poli supra aut infra terram aequis lancibus librata Aldh. Met. 10 p. 95; componitur semisperium, -rii, medius circulus, et emisperium, -ii in eodem sensu Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 536; semisperium, hemisperium, media spera Ib. 560; ut si intelligatur semispera firmamenti versus alterum polorum dividi in duas partes equales J. Blund An. 8; illa umbra proicietur a corpore facto ex duabus semisperis Ib. 144; illud ‥ necessario est minor [v. l. minus] ~a, licet appareat in visu ~a Gros. 76.  b accipiatur aliquod instrumentum sonum emittens ut pote vielle, cistolle et hujusmodi, super quod corda diligenter extendatur, et in capite et circa finem duo †semiferia [l. semisferia] ponantur cordam portantia, quas [sic] Greci magadas vocant Tunst. 208b.

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