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<blockquote>Assumed from thence a <b>half</b> consent. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Half ape</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a lemur.</cd> -- <col>Half back</col>. <fld>(Football)</fld> <cd>See under 2d <er>Back</er>.</cd> -- <col>Half bent</col>, <cd>the first notch, for the sear point to enter, in the tumbler of a gunlock; the halfcock notch.</cd> -- <col>Half binding</col>, <cd>a style of bookbinding in which only the back and corners are in leather.</cd> -- <col>Half boarder</col>, <cd>one who boards in part; specifically, a scholar at a boarding school who takes dinner only.</cd> -- <col>Half-breadth plan</col> <fld>(Shipbuilding)</fld>, <cd>a horizontal plan of the half a vessel, divided lengthwise, showing the lines.</cd> -- <col>Half cadence</col> <fld>(Mus.)</fld>, <cd>a cadence on the dominant.</cd> -- <col>Half cap</col>, <cd>a slight salute with the cap. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Shak</i>.</cd> -- <col>A half cock</col>, <cd>the position of the cock of a gun when retained by the first notch.</cd><-- half cocked: see below, halfcocked: = unprepared, lacking forethought; -- as in go off half cocked --> -- <col>Half hitch</col>, <cd>a sailor's knot in a rope; half of a clove hitch.</cd> -- <col>Half hose</col>, <cd>short stockings; socks.</cd> -- <col>Half measure</col>, <cd>an imperfect or weak line of action.</cd> -- <col>Half note</col> <fld>(Mus.)</fld>, <cd>a minim, one half of a semibreve.</cd> -- <col>Half pay</col>, <cd>half of the wages or salary; reduced pay; as, an officer on <i>half pay<i>.</cd> -- <col>Half price</col>, <cd>half the ordinary price; or a price much reduced.</cd> -- <col>Half round</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <cd>A molding of semicircular section.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <cd>Having one side flat and the other rounded; -- said of a file.</cd> -- <col>Half shift</col> <fld>(Mus.)</fld>, <cd>a position of the hand, between the open position and the first shift, in playing on the violin and kindred instruments. See <er>Shift</er>.</cd> -- <col>Half step</col> <fld>(Mus.)</fld>, <cd>a semitone; the smallest difference of pitch or interval, used in music.</cd> -- <col>Half tide</col>, <cd>the time or state of the tide equally distant from ebb and flood.</cd> -- <col>Half time</col>, <cd>half the ordinary time for work or attendance; as, the <i>half-time<i> system.</cd> -- <col>Half tint</col> <fld>(Fine Arts)</fld>, <cd>a middle or intermediate tint, as in drawing or painting. See <er>Demitint</er>.</cd> -- <col>Half truth</col>, <cd>a statement only partially true, or which gives only a part of the truth. <i>Mrs. Browning</i>.</cd> -- <col>Half year</col>, <cd>the space of six moths; one term of a school when there are two terms in a year.</cd></cs>

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<h1>Half</h1> <Xpage=665>

<hw>Half</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an equal part or degree; in some pa<?/ appro<?/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; <as>as, <ex>half</ex>-colored, <ex>half</ex> done, <ex>half</ex>-hearted, <ex>half</ex> persuaded, <ex>half</ex> conscious</as>.</def> "<i>Half</i> loth and <i>half</i> consenting."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<blockquote>Their children spoke <b>half</b>in the speech of Ashdod. <i>Neh. xiii. 24</i></blockquote>

<h1>Half</h1> <Xpage=665>

<hw>Half</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Halves</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[AS. <ets>healf</ets>. See <er>Half</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Part; side; behalf.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Wyclif.</i>

<blockquote>The four <b>halves</b> of the house. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by <i>of</i>; <as>as, a <ex>half</ex> of an apple</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Not <b>half</b> his riches known, and yet despised. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A friendship so complete Portioned in <b>halves</b> between us. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Better half</col>. <cd>See under <er>Better</er>. -- <col>In half</col>, <cd>in two; an expression sometimes used improperly instead of <i>in &or; into halves<i>; as, to cut <i>in half<i>.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> <i>Dickens</i>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>In, &or; On</col>, <col>one's half</col>, <cd>in one's behalf; on one's part.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> -- <col>To cry halves</col>, <cd>to claim an equal share with another.</cd> -- <col>To go halves</col>, <cd>to share equally between two.</cd></cs>

<h1>Half</h1> <Xpage=665>

<hw>Half</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To halve. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> See <er>Halve</er>.</def>

<i>Sir H. Wotton.</i>

<h1>Half-and-half</h1> <Xpage=665>

<hw>Half`-and-half"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.</def>

<i>Dickens.</i>

<h1>Halfbeak</h1> <Xpage=665>

<hw>Half"beak`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Any slender, marine fish of the genus <spn>Hemirhamphus</spn>, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; -- called also <altname>balahoo</altname>.</def>

<h1>Half blood</h1> <Xpage=665>

<hw>Half" blood`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <p><b>1.</b> <def>The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; <as>as, a brother or sister of the <ex>half blood</ex></as>. See <er>Blood</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 2 and 4.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A person so related to another.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed.</def>

<note>&hand; In the 2d and 3d senses usually with a hyphen.</note>