Flowers and Fruit of Halesia tetraptrra. 
a, dower cut longitudinally, 
halecine 
halecine (hal'e-sin), a. [< halec + -tnei.] Per- 
taining to the shad. 
halecoid (hal'e-koid), n. [< NL. haltcoides, < 
hake + -aides, -oid.~\ A fish of the family Clii- 
peidm; a clupeid. L. Agassiz ; /. Richardxon. 
Halecoides (hal-e-koi'dez), n. pi. [NL., < IKI- 
lec + -aides.] A group of fishes. Agassis, 1843. 
Halecomorphi (haFe-ko-mdr'fi), n. pi. [NL., 
< halec + Gr. nopfyi), form.] An order of living 
fanoid fishes, represented by the family Amiiilti. 
ogether with the Ginglyinnili, the Halecomorphi corre- 
spond to an order Holoxtei. Cycloganoidei is a synonym. 
K. D. Cope, 1870. 
ualecomorphous (hal*e-ko-m6r' fus), a. [< 
Halecomorphi + -OM.] Having the characters 
of the Halecomorphi. 
halecret, n. See hallecret. 
haleness (hal'nes), . The state of being hale ; 
healthiness; soundness. 
halert (ha'ler), n. One who pulls or hauls; a 
hauler. 
Halesia (ha-le'si-a), n. [Named after Stephen 
Sales (167^-1761), a distinguished botanist.] 
The generic name of the snowdrop- or silverbell- 
tree of the southern United States, belonging to 
the natural or- 
der Styraeew, 
distinguished 
from Styrax 
and Symplocos 
chiefly by its 
winged fruit. 
According to Ben- 
tham and Hooker, 
the east Asiatic 
genus Pterostyrax 
should he united 
with Halesia ; hut 
Gray did not ac- 
cept this view. 
The plants are 
handsome shrubs 
or small trees, 
with white bell- 
shaped flowers on 
slender pedun- 
cles, appearing be- 
fore the leaves, 
and usually borne 
on drooping or 
more or less hori- 
zontal branches, forming arches or rows of bells along the 
under side, and thus giving to the whole plant a beautiful 
appearance. Two of the three species, a. diptera and //. 
parviflora, are natives of the Gulf States and Georgia. 
Jhe remaining and best-known species, H. tetraptera, ex- 
tends as far north as West Virginia and southern Illi- 
nois, doing well in the parks of Washington. 
Halesiaceae (ha-le-si-a'se-e), n. pi. [NL., < Ha- 
lesia + -aceaj.'i A name given by Don in 1828 
to a natural order of plants, consisting of Ha- 
lesia only, now included in the Styracece. 
Halesiese (ha-le-si'e-e), n. pi. [NL., < Halesia 
+ -e<e.~\ The name proposed by Endlicher in 
1836 for a division of his order Ebenaceai, em- 
bracing the genus Halesia only. 
halesome (hal'sum), a. A dialectal (Scotch) 
variant of wholesome. 
The halesome parritch, chief o' Scotia's food. 
Burns, Cottar's Saturday Night. 
halewort (hal'wert), . [Sc., appar. a corrup- 
tion of hale (hail) worth, the whole value or 
amount: see hale 1 *, whole, and worth.'] The 
whole. 
I wish ye be nae the deil's bairns, the halewort o' ye. 
Hogg, Brownie, II. 25. 
hale-yardt, . An erroneous form of ale-yard. 
half (haf), a. and n. [I. a. < ME. half, < AS. 
healf = OS. half = OFries. half = D. half = 
MLG. half = OHG. halb, MHG. halp, G. halb 
= Icel. halfr = Sw. half = Dan. halv = Goth. 
halbs, adj., half; used also, in the numeral 
sense, as a noun. II. n. < ME. half, < AS. healf, 
f., side, part, = OS. halbha (cf. D. helft) = MLG. 
halve, half = OHG. halba, G. halbe (cf. equiv. 
halfte), side, part, behalf, = Icel. halfa, f., side, 
part, region, quarter, = Goth, halba, f., side, 
part. In the numeral sense, < ME. half, < AS. 
healf, n., half, being the adj. used alone in neut., 
or agreeing with a noun expressed or under- 
stood.] I. a. Being one of two equal parts; 
consisting of a moiety: as, a half share in an 
enterprise; a half ticket in a lottery. 
He is the half part of a blessed man. 
Left to be finished by such a she. 
Shak., K. John, ii. 2. 
At half cock. See cocfci. Half cadence, half close. 
See cadence. Half calf, fan-training, etc. See the 
nouns. To go Off at half cock. Seecoctl. 
II. n.; pi. halves (havz), formerly also halfs. 
1. Aside; apart. [Obsolete or colloq.] 
Therwith the night-spel seyde he anonrightes 
On the four halves of the hous aboute. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 285. 
2CSC 
And he seid to her, what wolt thou ? Sche seith to him, 
sey, that these tweyne my sones sit oon at thi right half, 
and oon at thi lift half in thi kyngdome. 
Wyclif, Mat. xx. 21 (Oxf.). 
2f. Part; behalf; account; sake. 
If to his soor ther may be founden salve, 
It shal not lakke, certeyn, on myn halve. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 94:.. 
3. One of two equal parts of anything that is 
divisible, or that may be regarded as divisible ; 
a moiety : usually not followed by of unless 
preceded by a qualifying word : as, half the 
miseries or pleasures of life; half a, pound; half 
an orange ; the half, one half, or the other half 
o/au orange. 
Thei hasted hem so faste oute of the contrey that thei 
hadde not with hem the half of her thinges. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 250. 
And the halfe, whiche was the parte of them that went 
out to warre, was iii. hundred thousande. 
Bible of 1551, Num. xxxi. 36. 
Thou hast the one half of ray heart. Shak., W. T., i 2. 
Joseph S. Sir, I beg you will do me the honour to sit 
down I entreat you, sir ! 
Sir Oliver. Dear sir, there's no occasion [aside] too 
civil by half! Sheridan, School for Scandal, v. 1. 
4. Among schoolboys in England, a session ; 
the term between vacations : a contraction of 
half-year. Sometimes there are three "halves " 
in the year. 
Light come, light go ; they wouldn't have been com- 
fortable with money in their pockets in the middle of the 
half. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. . 
It ... has completely stopped the boats for this half 
Sir G. C. Lewis, Letters, p. 3. 
5. In foot-ball, a half-back. See ftaefci, ., 12. 
C., '90, will probably play half till W. comes out. He 
runs remarkably fast and dodges well, but is far too light 
for a strong half-back. 
New York Evening Post, Oct. 31, 1887. 
Better half, a wife. [Colloq.] 
My deare, my better halfe (sayed heeX I find I now must 
leaue thee. Sir /*. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
By halves, incompletely ; imperfectly. 
God's None of these faint idle Artizans 
Who at the best abandon their designes, 
Working by halfs. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 4. 
In being eloquent it is not sufficient, if I may so express 
it, to feel by halves. Ooldmnith, The Bee, No. 7. 
Half an eye. Seeei/ei. In half, in to halves: as, to break 
a thing in half. 'to cry halves, to demand half or a 
share of something found by another. 
And he who sees you stoop to th' ground 
Cries halves .' to everything you've found 
Savage, Horace to Scaeva, p. 32. 
You cannot cry halves to anything that he finds. 
Lamb, Imperfect Sympathies. 
To go halves, see go. To have half a mind. See 
in ind. To the halves, to the extent of one halt 
Perturbations, that purge to the halve*, tire nature, and 
molest the body to no purpose. Burton, Anat. of Mel., ii. 2. 
To the halves still survives among us, though apparently 
obsolete in England. It means either to let or to hire a 
piece of land, receiving half the profit in money or in kind 
(partibus locare). I mention it because in a note by some 
English editor, to which I have lost my reference, I have 
seen it wrongly explained. Lowell, Biglow Papers, Int. 
halft (haf), r. t. [<half,n. Usually halve, q. v.] 
To divide into halves ; halve ; hence, loosely, to 
separate into parts of any relative size. 
Not tro[u]bled, mangled, and halfed, but sounde, whole, 
full, and hable to do their office. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 39. 
For that cause, and lest the often halfiwj of ages should 
trouble the faithlesse, saith Master Broughton, they faine 
Cainan, betwixt Arphaxad and Selah. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 41. 
half (haf), adv. [< ME. halfe; < half, a.] In an 
equal part or degree ; by half; hence, in part: 
to some extent : much used in composition, and 
often indefinite: as, half-b&ked; 7iy-dead; 
/((/(/-educated ; Any-starved. 
Ful longe lay the sege and lytel wroughte, 
So that they were halfe ydel, as hem thoughte. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1697. 
There is neither city nor towne 
That likes them Imlfe so well. 
Robin Hood and his Huntes-men (Child's Ballads, V. 435). 
Half inwardly, half audibly she spoke. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
The world was only half discovered. 
Stedman, Viet Poets, p. 11. 
halfa, halfa-grass (hal'fa, -gras), //. Same as 
alfa. 
The increasing exportation of halfa-grass from the prov- 
ince of Oran. Science, VI. 318. 
half-and-half (haf'and-haf), n. A mixture of 
malt liquors; in England, especially, a mix- 
ture of porter and ale; in some parts of the 
United States, old and new ale mixed. 
Various sorts of beer were brewed, and customers who 
could not afford to drink all old beer now called for a niix- 
half-box 
tare of liquors, using half-and-half, or some other pro- 
portion of the various sorts of beer soM. 
S. Dowell, Taxes in England, IV. en. 
half-ape (haf'Sp), . A lemur, one of the I'm 
xi lit ill'. 
half-back (haf'bak), n. See lack*, n., 12. 
half-baked (haf bakt), a. Not thoroughly 
baked ; hence, in colloquial use, raw ; inexpe- 
rienced; silly; immature; ill-digested. 
He must scheme forsooth, this half-baited Scotch cake ! 
Scott, St. Ronan's Well, xxxi. 
He treated his cousin as a sort of harmless lunatic, and, 
as they say in Devon, half-baked. 
Kingdey, Westward Ho, iii. 
I n this tax lies the science of redistribution, and the true 
rejection of all spurious or half-baked economics, like so- 
cialism and communism. Jy. A. Hen., i \ 1,1 II 50. 
half-baptize (hiif'bap-t!z'), v. t. 1. To baptize 
privately or without full rites, as a child iu 
danger of death. 
"And now about business," said the beadle, taking out 
a leathern pocket-book : "the child that was half-baptized 
Oliver Twist is nine years old to-day." 
Kdma, Oliver Twist, U. 
2. To make partially Christian ; convert half- 
way. [Rare.] 
Irish kernes. 
Ruffians half-clothed, half-human, half -baptized. 
Southey, Joan of Arc, ii. 
halfbeak (haf'bek), . A fish of the family 
Exocoetida? and genus Hemirhamphus, having 
the lower jaw developed into a long ensiform 
Halfbeak (Hemirhamphus UMt/asciatus). 
weapon, while the upper jaw is normally short ; 
a hemirhamphine ; a Jialfbill. Numerous spe- 
cies are found in tropical and subtropical seas. 
half-belt (haf belt), n. In her., a bearing rep- 
resenting a small part of a belt, always in- 
cluding the buckle: it is generally blazoned 
"a half-belt and buckle." 
half-bent (haf 'bent), n. The half-cock of a 
firelock. E. H. Knight. 
There is a half-bent in the tumbler that prevents the 
hammer being accidentally pushed down on to the ex- 
ploding-pins. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 259. 
halfbill (haf'bil), n. 1. A book-name of the 
birds of the genus Heniignaflius : so called be- 
cause the under mandible is little more than 
half as long as the upper. 2. A fish of the 
genus Hemirhamphus; a hemirhamphine; a 
halfbeak. See Hemirhamphinai. 
half-binding (haf'bin'ding), . See binding. 
half-blood (hiif'blud), . and a. I. . 1. The 
relation between persons born of the same fa- 
ther or mother, but not of the same father and 
mother: as, a brother or sister of the half-blood. 
If one brother of the half blood die, the administration 
ought tu be committed to the other brother of the half 
blood. Bacon, Maxims of the Law, xi. 
Whether a sister by the half-blood shall inherit before 
a brother's daughter by the whole-blood? Locke. 
2. One of two or more persons so related. 
3. One born of a male and female of different 
breeds or races ; a half-breed. 
II. a. 1. Having descent from one of the 
same parents as another, but not from both. 
2. Belonging by blood half to one breed or 
race, and half to another. 
half-blooded (haf 'blud'ed), . Of mixed blood 
or breed; half-bred; specifically, coming from 
parents of superior and inferior stock: as, a 
naif-blooded horse or sheep. See blooded. 
Alb. The let-alone lies not in your good-will. 
Earn. Nor in thine, lord. 
Alb. Half-blooded fellow, yes. Shak., Lear, v. 3. 
half-bloom (haf'blom), n. A round mass of 
iron as it comes out of the finery. 
half-board (haf'bord), n. Xattt., an evolution 
of a sailing vessel performed without bracing 
or altering the sails, by which distance to 
windward is gained without going about on 
the other tack, the helm being put up before the 
vessel quite loses her headway, so that the sails 
are filled again on the same tack as before. 
A ship, by a series of half-boards, might work up in a 
crowded harbor to a position not otherwise attainable. 
Luce., Seamanship, p. 523. 
half-boarder (haf 'b6r"der), n. A day-boarder 
at a school, or one who takes dinner only. 
half-boot (hiif'bSt), n. Same as boot' 2 , 2. 
half -bound (haf 'bound), a. Bound in half -bind- 
ing : as. a half-bound book. 
half-box (haf'boks), . In much., a box that is 
open at one side. 
