2. Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue. Only semblances or imitations of shells. Woodward.
SEMBLANT
Sem"blant, a. Etym: [F. semblant, p. pr.]
1. Like; resembling. [Obs.] Prior.
2. Seeming, rather than real; apparent. [R.] Carlyle.
SEMBLANT
Sem"blant, n. Etym: [F.]
1. Show; appearance; figure; semblance. [Obs.] Spenser. His flatterers made semblant of weeping. Chaucer.
2. The face. [Obs.] Wyclif (Luke xxiv. 5).
SEMBLATIVE
Sem"bla*tive, a.
Defn: Resembling. [Obs.]
And all is semblative a woman's part. Shak.
SEMBLE
Sem"ble, v. i. Etym: [F. sembler. See Semblable, a.]