Both Uses of
semblance
in
Moby Dick
- King of Japan, whose lofty jet they say at times assumed the semblance of a snow-white cross against the sky?†
Chpt 43-45 *
- So like a choice casket is it secreted in him, that I have known some whalemen who peremptorily deny that the Sperm Whale has any other brain than that palpable semblance of one formed by the cubic-yards of his sperm magazine.†
Chpt 79-81
Definition:
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(semblance) a small amount of something; or something resembling (looking like) something else