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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Half \Half\, n.; pl {Halves}. [AS. healf. See {Half}, a.]
1. Part side behalf. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
The four halves of the house. --Chaucer.
2. One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided,
or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of as
a half of an apple.
Not half his riches known and yet despised.
--Milton.
A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between
us --Tennyson.
{Better half}. See under {Better}.
{In half}, in two an expression sometimes used improperly
instead of in or into halves; as to cut in half.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.
{In, or On}, {one's half}, in one's behalf; on one's part
[Obs.]
{To cry halves}, to claim an equal share with another.
{To go halves}, to share equally between two
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Halves \Halves\, n.,
pl of {Half}.
{By halves}, by one half at once; halfway; fragmentarily;
partially; incompletely.
I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or
I have it not --J. H.
Newman.
{To go halves}. See under {Go}.
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