Definition of half

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Half (a.) Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge..

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Chronometer :: Chronometer (n.) A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc..
Pink :: Pink (a.) Half-shut; winking.
Ray :: Ray (n.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray..
Semiorbicular :: Semiorbicular (a.) Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.
Tub :: Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes..
Jacqueminot :: "Jacqueminot (n.) A half-hardy, deep crimson rose of the remontant class; -- so named after General Jacqueminot, of France..
Hemispheroid :: Hemispheroid (n.) A half of a spheroid.
Again :: Again (adv.) Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, half as much again..
Semideistical :: Semideistical (a.) Half deisticsl; bordering on deism.
Semibarbaric :: Semibarbaric (a.) Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display..
Semicalcareous :: Semicalcareous (a.) Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant..
Ladino :: Ladino (n.) One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge.
Semiweekly :: Semiweekly (adv.) At intervals of half a week each.
Brodekin :: Brodekin (n.) A buskin or half-boot.
Mail :: Mail (n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V..
Rhatanhy :: Rhatanhy (n.) The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine.
D :: D () As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign / (or / ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000..
Flat :: Flat (n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower..
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..
Semibreve :: Semibreve (n.) A note of half the time or duration of the breve; -- now usually called a whole note. It is the longest note in general use.
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