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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Half \Half\ (h[aum]f), a. [AS. healf, half, half; as a noun half, side part akin to OS., OFries., & D. half, G. halb, Sw half, Dan. halv, Icel. h[=a]lfr, Goth. halbs. Cf {Halve}, {Behalf}.] 1. Consisting of a moiety, or half; as a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view. Note: The adjective and noun are often united to form a compound. 2. Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less partial; imperfect; as a half dream; half knowledge. Assumed from thence a half consent. --Tennyson. {Half ape} (Zo["o]l.), a lemur. {Half back}. (Football) See under 2d {Back}. {Half bent}, the first notch, for the sear point to enter in the tumbler of a gunlock; the halfcock notch. {Half binding}, a style of bookbinding in which only the back and corners are in leather. {Half boarder}, one who boards in part specifically, a scholar at a boarding school who takes dinner only. {Half-breadth plan} (Shipbuilding), a horizontal plan of the half a vessel, divided lengthwise, showing the lines. {Half cadence} (Mus.), a cadence on the dominant. {Half cap}, a slight salute with the cap. [Obs.] --Shak. {A half cock}, the position of the cock of a gun when retained by the first notch. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Half \Half\, v. t. To halve. [Obs.] See {Halve}. --Sir H. Wotton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Half \Half\, adv In an equal part or degree; in some pa? appro?mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as half-colored, half done half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious. ``Half loth and half consenting.'' --Dryden. Their children spoke halfin the speech of Ashdod. --Neh. xiii. 24 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: half adj 1: consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity; "a half chicken"; "lasted a half hour" [syn: {half(a)}] 2: partial; "gave me a half smile"; "he did only a half job" [syn: {half(a)}] 3: (of siblings) related through one parent only; "a half brother"; "half sister" [ant: {whole}] n 1: one of two equal parts of a divisible whole; "half a loaf" or "half an hour" or "a century and one half" [syn: {one-half}] 2: in various games or performances: either of two periods of play separated by an interval adv : partially or to the extent of a half; "he was half hidden by the bushes" From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus who maintained the negative. Procinus however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.
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