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Halve :: Halve (v. t.) To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of..

Hemicarp :: Hemicarp (n.) One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.

Halve :: Halve (v. t.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together..

Tops-and-bottoms :: Tops-and-bottoms (n. pl.) Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, -- used as food for infants..

Desmidian :: Desmidian (n.) A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves..

Median :: Median (a.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts..

Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice..

Paramere :: Paramere (n.) One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish..

Half :: Half (v. t.) To halve. [Obs.] See Halve.

Metayage :: Metayage (n.) A system of farming on halves.

Halves :: Halves (pl. ) of Hal.

Inch :: Inch (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic..

Compote :: Compote (n.) A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears..

Halves :: Halves (n.) pl. of Half.

Saurognathous :: Saurognathous (a.) Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (Pici)..

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

Halve :: Halve (n.) A half.

Eudipleura :: Eudipleura (n. pl.) The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves..

Dimidiate :: Dimidiate (v. t.) To represent the half of; to halve.

Zygomorphous :: Zygomorphous (a.) Symmetrical bilaterally; -- said of organisms, or parts of organisms, capable of division into two symmetrical halves only in a single plane..

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