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Half :: Half (a.) Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view..

Halfway :: Halfway (a.) Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway.

Halfen :: Halfen (a.) Wanting half its due qualities.

Semichorus :: Semichorus (n.) A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir..

Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest..

Hemihedral :: Hemihedral (a.) Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron..

Sulphydric :: Sulphydrate (n.) A compound, analogous to a hydrate, regarded as a salt of sulphydric acid, or as a derivative of hydrogen sulphide in which one half of the hydrogen is replaced by a base (as potassium sulphydrate, KSH), or as a hydrate in which the oxygen has been wholly or partially replaced by sulphur..

Sixpence :: Sixpence (n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents..

Semihoral :: Semihoral (a.) Half-hourly.

Halfendeal :: Halfendeal (adv.) Half; by the part.

Nombril :: Nombril (n.) A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point. See Escutcheon.

Sponsional :: Sponsion (n.) An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority..

Half-hearted :: Half-hearted (a.) Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind.

Harquebuse :: Harquebuse (n.) A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock..

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

Sen :: Sen (n.) A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent..

Blink :: Blink (v. i.) To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes..

Semipedal :: Semipedal (a.) Containing a half foot.

Hemisphere :: Hemisphere (n.) Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture..

Erf :: Erf (n.) A garden plot, usually about half an acre..

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