half-box 
The support H is provided with two half-boxes. 
C. T. Davix, Leather, p. 473. 
half-bred (hiif'bred), . 1. Of mixed breed; 
mongrel: as, a half-bred dog, horse, etc. 2. 
Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good 
breeding. 
half-breed (hiif'bred), . and a. I. . 1. One 
who is half -blooded ; one descended from pa- 
rents or ancestors of different races : specifical- 
ly applied to persons descended from certain 
races of different physical characteristics, as 
the offspring of American Indians and whites. 
In this expression persons with any perceptible trace of 
Indian blood, whether mixed with white or with negro 
stock, are popularly included. F. A. Walker. 
2. In U. 8. politics, a member of & faction in 
the Republican party in the State of New 
York, in 1881 and the years immediately fol- 
lowing, which opposed the portion of the party 
in that State which had control of the party 
organization: so called in derision, as being 
but half Republican, by the members of the 
opposite faction or " stalwarts." 
The Half -Breed is a Republican who is dissatisfied with 
the . . . Machine and acts against it. 
The Nation, June 16, 1881, p. 415. 
II. . Half-blood. 
half-brilliant (haf'bril"yant), n. and a. I. n. 
A single-cut brilliant. See brilliant, n., 1. 
II. a. Having the shape of a single-cut bril- 
liant. 
half-brother (haf'bruTH"er), n. [< ME. half- 
brother = G. halbbruder = Icel. halfbrodhir = 
Dan. iialrbroder = Sw. halfbrodtr, halfbror; 
< half + brother.} A brother by one parent 
only. 
half-capt (haf'kap), n. A slight or only half- 
civil salute with the cap ; hence, any imperfect 
act of civility. 
With certain half-caps, and cold-moving nods, 
They froze me into silence. Shale., T. of A., ii. 2. 
half-caponiere (haf'kap-o-ner'), . Same as 
dem i-capontere. 
half-caste (haf'kast), M.anda. I. . 1. A per- 
son of mixed European and Asiatic parentage ; 
especially, in India, a person born of a native 
mother and a Portuguese or French father. 
See Eurasian. 
An invalid sergeant . . . came, attended by his wife, a 
very pretty young half-caste. 
lip. Ueber, Journey through Upper Provinces of India, 
[I. 298. 
2. By extension, any half-breed ; especially, one 
born of a European parent and a native parent 
of different race in the country of the latter. 
Othello is black ; the very tragedy lies there : . . . the 
whole pathos, and extenuation of his doubts of Desdemo- 
na, depend on this blackness. Fechter makes him a half- 
caste. O. H. Lewes, Actors and the Art of Acting. 
Much as we admired the Maori race, we were even more 
struck by the half-caste. The Century, XXVII. 919. 
II. a. Born of mixed European and Asiatic 
or other native parentage. 
They [the Mahratta infantry] are commanded by half- 
cast people, of Portuguese and French extraction. 
Dirom, Campaign in India, p. 11. 
And there is the half-castt child, the lisping chee-chee, 
or Eurasian. J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 340. 
half-cent (haf'senf), n. A copper coin of the 
United States, of the value of jjjr of a dollar, 
and weighing 94 grains, current from 1793 to 
1857. 
half-cheek (haf'chek), w. A face in profile ; a 
side-face. [Rare.] 
St. George's half -cheek in a brooch. Shalr., L. L. L., v. 2. 
half-chess (haf'ehes), n. In a military bridge, 
a short chess or platform-board, 
half-clammedt (haf'klamd), a. Half-starved. 
Lions' half-clammfd entrails roar for food. 
Marston, Antonio and Mellida. 
half-cock (haf'kok), . The position of the 
cock or hammer of a gun when it is elevated 
only half-way and retained by the first notch. 
See cock 1 . 
half-cock (haf'kok'), v. t. To cock the ham- 
mer of, as a gun, so that it rests at the first 
notch. 
half-communion (haf 'ko-mu'nyon), . The 
use of but one element in the communion ; 
communion in one kind. The term is applied to 
the practice of the Roman Catholic Church, in which the 
celebrant receives the communion in both kinds, but ad- 
ministers only the wafer to the people. The doctrine of 
that church is that Christ is received whole and entire 
under either kind that is, under the form of bread alone 
or wine alone ; and the restriction placed upon the people 
in communion is for the avoidance of sacrilege. 
half-compasst, adv. With the body half en- 
veloped. 
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When you came first, did you not walk the town 
In a long cloak, half -compass ? 
Fletcher (and another), Noble Gentleman, v. ]. 
half-crown (hiif'kroun'}. ii. 1. An English sil- 
ver coin of half the 
value of the crown 
that is, 2*. 6d. It 
has been currrnt 
since the time of Ed- 
ward VI. 
I ranged too high : what 
draws me down 
Into the common day? 
Is it the weight of that 
half-croipn 
Which I shall have to 
pay? 
Tennyson, Will Water- 
[proof. 
2. A gold coin worth 
2s. 6d., formerly cur- 
rent in England, and 
first issued by Henry 
VIII. 
half-curlew (haf- 
ker'lu), . 1. The 
whimbrel, or jack- 
curlew of Europe, 
\HIHCIliaK plld'O/llln. 
[Norfolk, Eng.] 2. 
The European bar- 
tailed godwit, Li- 
mosa lapponica. ('. 
Swainson. [Norfolk, 
En ' 
ng-] 
If-de 
Reverse. 
Silver Half-crown of Queen Anne, 
1704; British Museum. (Size of the 
original.) 
half-dealt, . [ME. halfdele = Dan. halvdel; 
< half + deal*. Cf. halfendeal.] A half part; 
half. 
For where was euere ony cristen kynge that 36 euere 
knewe, 
That helde swiche an household be the half-delle 
As Richard in this rewme ? Richard the Reddest, Iv. 2. 
half-deck (haf'dek), n. 1. See deck, 2. 2. 
The slipper-limpet, Crepidula fornicata, or a 
related species, the shell being likened to a 
half-decked vessel. [Local, U. S.] 
half-dime (haf dim'), n. A silver coin of the 
United States, of the value of 5 cents. In 1866 
it was replaced in coinage by a five-cent piece 
of copper and nickel, popularly called a nickel. 
half-distance (haf'dis"tans), w. In milit. tac- 
tics, one half the prescribed regular interval or 
space between the divisions of troops in a col- 
umn, or between the ranks in a line. 
half-dollar (haf 'dol'ar), n. A silver coin of the 
United States, of the value of 50 cents. 
half-eagle (haf'e'gl), . A gold coin of the 
United States, of the value of $5, or about 
1 Os. 6rf. English. 
halfent (ha'fn), . [Appar. < half + -e3, but 
due to halfen- in halfendeal, q. v.j Half: used 
by Spenser in the phrase halfen eye to mean 
half-sight (that is, one eye). 
So perfect in that art was Paridell, 
That he Malbeccoes halfen eye did wyle. 
His halfen eye he wiled wondrous well, 
And Hellenors both eyes did eke begnyle. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. x. 5. 
halfendealt, ' [< ME. halfen dele, halvendel, 
htilfne del, etc., the half part, being an inflected 
form (ace. or weak dat., etc.) of half, a., with 
del, deal, part : see half and deal 1 , and cf. half- 
deal.] The half part;' half. 
Therfore maken thei here God of an Ox the on part, 
and the other halfondelle of a Man : because that man is 
the most noble creature in Erthe. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 165. 
In hony thenne up boile hem lesse & more 
Til it be halvendel that was before. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 205. 
halfendealt, adr. [< ME. halfendel, etc.; < 
lirilfendeal, .] By half; half. 
They . . . halvendel her holynesse leye aside 
As for the time. Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale, I. 615. 
The humid night was farforth spent, 
And hevenly lampes were halfendeale ybrent. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. ix. 53. 
halfer (ha'fer), . 1. One who receives, pos- 
sesses, or pays a half; one who does, has, etc., 
only half of something. [Obsolete or rare.] 
Sure it would be more pleasing unto God, and com- 
mendable with men, if yourselves and such halfers in 
opinion, ... for your private ends, would openly avow 
what covertly you conceale. 
Bp. Mounlagu, Appeal to Ceesar, ii. R. 
Halfers are they that pave their predial Tythes half to 
one of the foresafde Church and half to the other every 
yeare, but resort one yeare to Wath Church and the next 
yeare following to Mexborough Church personally, and 
paye personal tythes and do personal Duties one yeare to 
one church and the next yeare following to the other. 
Quoted in N. and Q., 8th ser., XI. 366. 
half-heartedness 
2. A male fallow-deer gelded. 3. pi. An ex- 
clamation among children which entitles the 
utterer to half of anything found by his com- 
panion. 
If the Under previously says, " Xo halfers, nndee keepee, 
loosee seekee," he is entitled to keep the thing. 
BalUmU. 
half-face (haf'fas), a. and H. I. . Showing 
only half of the face: as, a half-face picture. 
Ii. >i. 1. In milit. tactics, a turning of the 
face 45 to the right or left, used in making 
oblique marches to the right or left. 2. A 
raised floor or platform. Halliwell. [Eng.] 
half-faced (haf 'fast), a. 1 . Thin-faced ; hence, 
meager; thin; imperfect. 
With all other odd ends of your half-faced English. 
Naihe, Pierce Penilesse. 
But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship ! 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 3. 
This same half-faced fellow, Shadow, . . . presents no 
mark to the enemy ; the foeman may with as great aim 
level at the edge of a penknife. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 
2. Showing half the face ; also, stamped with 
a profile, as a coin. 
George Pyeboard? honest George? why cam'st thou in 
half-fac'd, muffled so? Puritan, iii. 6. (Nares.) 
You half-fac'd groat ! you thick-cheek'd chittyface ! 
Robert Earl of Huntington. 
Half-faced camp, among frontiersmen, a camp or shel- 
ter left open on tne south side. [Southern and western 
U. S.J 
Sleeping in half-faced camps, where the heavy air of 
the rank woods was in their lungs all night, or in the 
fouler atmosphere of overcrowded cabins, they [Illinois 
pioneers] were especially subject to miasmatic fevers. 
The Century, XXXIII. 379. 
half-facet (haf'fas"et), w. In gem-cutting, one 
of the eight skill-facets or of the eight cross- 
facets on a brilliant. See brilliant, n., 1. 
half-falconet (haf 'fal"kp-net), n. A small can- 
non. See falconet, 3. 
half-farthing (haf'far'THing), H. An English 
colonial copper coin of half the value of the 
farthing, issued 
for circulation 
in Ceylon dur- 
ing the reigns 
of George IV., 
William IV., 
and Victoria. 
It has not been 
coined since 
1856. 
half-feather (haf'feTH"er), n. See feather. 
half-fish (haf'fish), . A five-year-old salmon. 
Willuyhby. [Local, Eng.] 
half-floor (haf'flor), . See floor. 
half-fou (haf'fo), n. [Sc.,<half + foil, a bushel, 
lit. full, =E./i.] A half-bushel. [Scotch.] 
I brought a half-fou o' gude red goud 
Out o'er the sea wf me. 
Sir Patrick Spans (Child's Ballads, III. 154). 
half-godt, a. [ME. half-god = D. halfgod = G. 
halbgott = Dan. halrtjud = Sw. halfgud.'] A 
demigod. 
On satury and fawny more and lesse, 
That halve-goddes ben of wildernesse. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 1545. 
half-guinea (haf'gin'i), . An English gold 
coin of the value of 10s. 6d., no longer in cir- 
culation. 
half-hatchet (haf 'hach^et), n. A hatchet hav- 
ing a bit projecting only on the side toward 
the hand, the other side being straight ; a shin- 
gling hatchet. 
half-header (hafhed'er), n. In bricklaying, a 
brick either cut longitudinally into two equal 
parts, or so cut and again transversely into 
four, used to close the work at the end of a 
course. See closer 1 . 
half-hearted (haf 'bar'' ted), a. 1. Having or 
showing little generosity ; illiberal ; ungener- 
ous; unkind. B. Jonson. 2. Having or show- 
ing little eagerness, enthusiasm, or determina- 
tion; not earnest; lukewarm: as, half-hearted 
partizanship; a half-hearted apologist. 
half-heartedly (haf'harted-li), adr. Without 
enthusiasm or eagerness; indifferently. 
Very little consideration sufficed to show that the old 
rales were only made for men who were expected to carry 
them out half-heartedly. 
Bury and Hillier, Cycling, p. 213. 
half-heartedness (haf'har // ted-nes), >i. The 
character of being half-hearted; want of ear- 
nestness ; lukewarmness. 
I discover nothing but mean and miserable things, con- 
ceit and a pretence of solid work without any real founda- 
tion ; half-heartednesg in everything. 
Quarterly Rev., CXLVI. 77. 
Obverse. Reverse. 
Half-farthing of William IV., British Mu- 
seum. (Size of the original.) 
