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Sesquiduplicate :: Sesquiduplicate (a.) Twice and a half as great (as another thing); having the ratio of two and a half to one.

Surbated :: Surbased (a.) Having the vertical height from springing line to crown less than the half span; -- said of an arch; as, a segmental arch is surbased..

Bawbee :: Bawbee (n.) A halfpenny.

Token :: Token (n.) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides..

Majority :: Majority (n.) The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast..

Fuller :: Fuller (a.) A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser..

Hemi- :: Hemi- () A prefix signifying half.

Half-wit :: Half-wit (n.) A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.

Demy :: Demy (n.) A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford..

Reformed :: Reformed (a.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.

Scarp :: Scarp (n.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter..

Jam :: Jam (v. t.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.

Sesquipedalian :: Sesquipedalian (a.) Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words..

Graille :: Graille (n.) A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers..

Interest :: Interest (n.) To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work..

Auger :: Auger (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..

Semipellucid :: Semipellucid (a.) Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem..

Half-heard :: Half-heard (a.) Imperfectly or partly heard to the end.

Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..

Doze :: Doze (v. i.) To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy..

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