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Half"-boot` (-bt`), n. A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.

Half"-bound` (-bound`), n. Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.

Half"-bred` (-brd`), a. 1. Half-blooded. [Obs.]

2. Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained. Atterbury.

Half"-breed` (-brd`), a. Half-blooded.

Half"-breed`, n. A person who is half-blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race.

Half"-broth`er (-brth`r), n. A brother by one parent, but not by both.

Half"-caste` (-kst), n. One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective; as, half-caste parents.

Half"-clammed` (-klmd`), a. Half-filled. [Obs.]

Lions' half-clammed entrails roar for food.

Marston.

Half"cock` (-kk`), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Halfcocked(-kkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Halfcocking.] To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.

To go off halfcocked. (a) To be discharged prematurely, or with the trigger at half cock; -- said of a firearm. (b) To do or say something without due thought or care. [Colloq. or Low]

Half"-cracked` (-krkt`), a. Half-demented; half-witted. [Colloq.]

Half"-deck` (-dk`), n. 1. (Zoˆl.) A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell.

2. See Half deck, under Deck.

Half"-decked` (-dkt), a. Partially decked.

The half-decked craft . . . used by the latter Vikings.

Elton.

Half"en (-'n), a. [From Half.] Wanting half its due qualities. [Obs.] Spenser.

Half"en*deal` (-'n*dl`), adv. [OE. halfendele. See Half, and Deal.] Half; by the half part. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- n. A half part. [Obs.] R. of Brunne.

Half"er (-r), n. 1. One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.

2. A male fallow deer gelded. Pegge (1814).

Half"-faced` (-fst`), a. Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager. Shak.

Half"-fish` (-fsh`), n. (Zoˆl.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth. [Prov. Eng.]

Half"-hatched` (-hcht`), a. Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs. Gay.

Half"-heard` (-hrd`), a. Imperfectly or partly heard; not heard to the end.

And leave half-heard the melancholy tale.