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Halfway :: Halfway (adv.) In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded..

Demilance :: Demilance (n.) A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer..

Midway :: Midway (adv.) In the middle of the way or distance; half way.

Squirehood :: Squireen (n.) One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously.

Hogshead :: Hogshead (n.) An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52/ imperial gallons; a half pipe..

Half Blood :: Half blood () The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4..

Griffon :: Griffon (n.) A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art..

Semilunar :: Semilunar (a.) Shaped like a half moon.

Half-caste :: Half-caste (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..

Throttle :: Throttle (v. t.) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated..

About :: About (adv.) To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about..

Wherry :: Wherry (n.) A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing..

Bastard :: Bastard (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book..

Tressure :: Tressure (n.) A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter..

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches..

Coss :: Coss (n.) A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles..

Rap :: Rap (n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

Half Blood :: Half blood (n.) A person so related to another.

Half-fish :: Half-fish (n.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth.

Semi-christianized :: Semi-Christianized (a.) Half Christianized.

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