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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..

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin..

Semicircle :: Semicircle (n.) A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference..

Half-brother :: Half-brother (n.) A brother by one parent, but not by both..

Bawbee :: Bawbee (n.) A halfpenny.

Hap''penny :: Hap'penny (n.) A half-penny.

Lune :: Lune (n.) Anything in the shape of a half moon.

Halved :: Halved (a.) Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate..

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..

Atlantes :: Atlantes (n. pl.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides..

Semiannular :: Semiannular (a.) Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle.

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

Yardarm :: Yardarm (n.) Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard, from the center or mast to the end..

Sesterce :: Sesterce (n.) A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents..

Finger :: Finger (n.) The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard..

Doted :: Doted (a.) Half-rotten; as, doted wood..

Semiquartile :: Semiquartile (n.) An aspect of the planets when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half..

Semiperspicuous :: Semiperspicuous (a.) Half transparent; imperfectly clear; semipellucid.

Flat :: Flat (v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone..

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

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