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confufion and inconfiftency in the notions and opinions 
of fome perfons. Watts. 
HALF-SEAS-OVER. A proverbial eXpreflion for 
any far-advanced. It is commonly ufed of one partly 
intoxicated: 
I am half-feas-o'er to death ; 
And fince I mult die once, I would be loth 
To make a double work of what’s half finifh’d. Dryden. 
HALF-SIGHTED, adj. Seeing imperfectly; having 
weak difcernment.—The officers of the king’s houffiold 
had need be provided, both for his honour and thrift; 
they mult look both ways, elfe they are but half-fghted. 
Bacon. 
EIALF-SISTER, f.. A filter by father or mother’s fide. 
HALF-SPHERE;/. Hemifphere: 
Let night grow blacker with thy plots ; and day, 
At Ihewing but thy head forth, ftart away 
From this half-fphere. Ben Jonfon. 
HALF-STRAINED, adj. Half-bred; imp'erfeCt: 
I find I’m but a half-f rain'd villain yet, 
But mungril-mifchievous; for my blood boil’d 
To view this brutal aCt. Dryden. 
HALF-SUPT, part. adj. Fed with half a fupper: 
My half-fupt fword, that frankly would have fed, 
Pleas’d with this dainty bit thus goes to bed. Shakefpeare. 
HALF-SWORD, f. Clofe fight; within half the 
length of the fword.—I am a rogue, if I were not at half- 
fword with a dozen of them two hours together. Falflaff. 
HALF-TONGUE, f. The jury impannelled on the 
trial of a foreigner, one half of which are to beEnglifii, 
and the other half of that nation to which the criminal 
belongs. 
HALF-WAY, adv. In the middle : 
Fearlefs he fees, who is with virtue crown’d. 
The tempeft rage, and hears the thunder found j 
Ever the fame, let fortune fmile or frown : 
Serenely as he liv’d refigns hrs breath ; 
Meets deftiny half-way , nor ihrinks at death. Granville. 
HALF-WIT., f. A blockhead ; a foolilh fellow : 
Half-wits are fleas, fo little and fo light, 
We fcarce could know they live, but that they bite. 
Dryden. 
HALF-WITTED, adj. Imperfedly furnifhed with 
underftanding.—I would rather have trulted the refine¬ 
ment of our language, as to found, to the judgment of 
the women, than of half-witted poets. Swift. —When half 
is added to any word noting perfonal qualities, it com¬ 
monly implies contempt. 
HALF-WORKER,/. Joint worker : 
Is there no way for men to be, but women 
Mull be half-workers? Shakefpeare, 
HA'LFEN, adj. Wanting half its due qualities : 
So perfect in that art was ParideJ, 
That he Malbecco’s halfen eye did wile, 
His halfen eye he wiled wondrous well. Spenfer. 
HALFENDE'AL, adv. Half-—And hevenly lampes 
were halfev.deal ybrent. Spenfer. 
HAL'HUL, a city of Paiefline, belonging to the tribe 
of Judah; fituated in the mountains of that province. 
fofh. XV. 58. 
HA'LI, a city of Paiefline, belonging to the tribe 
of Alher; fituated on the boundary of that province. 
fofh. xix. 25. 
HALI-BEI'GFI, firft dragoman or interpreter at the 
Grand Signior’s court at Conftantinople, in the feven- 
teenth century, born of Chriftian parents in Poland ; 
but, having been taken by the Tartars when he was 
young, they fold him to the Turks, who brought him 
up in their religion in the feraglio. His name, in his 
aaative country was Bobowfki. He learnt many languages; 
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and fir Paul Ricaut owns he was indebted to him for 
feveral things which he relates in his “Prefent State of 
the Ottoman Empire.” He held a great correfpondence 
with the Englifti, who perfuaded him to tranflate fome 
books into the Turkifh language; and he had a mind 
to return into the bofom of the Chriftian church, but 
died before he could accompliffi the defign. Dr. Hyde 
publiflied his book Of the Liturgy of the Turks, their 
Pilgrimages to Mecca, their Circumcifion, and Vifiting 
of die Sick. He tranflated thecatechifm of the church 
of England, and the Bible, into the Turkifh language. 
The manufcript is lodged in the library of Leyden. He 
wrote likewife a Turkifh grammar and dictionary. 
HAL'I A, the name of one of the Nereides. Apollodorus. 
—A feftival at Rhodes in honour of the fun. 
HALIAC'MON, a rrv<;r which feparates Theffaly 
from Macedonia, and falls into the Sinus Thermiacus. 
HALIAR'TUS, a town of Boeotia, founded by Ha- 
liartus, the fon of Therfander. The monuments of Pan- 
dion king of Athens, and of Lyfander the Lacedaemo¬ 
nian general, were feen in that town. Livy. 
HAL'lBUT,yi A fort of fifii.—In the afternoon, 
having three hours calm, our people caught upwards of 
a hundred halibuts , fome of which weighed a hundred 
pounds, and none lefs than twenty pounds. Cook and 
King’s Voyages. 
’HAL'IBUT-HEAD, a lofty hill and ifland near the 
weft coaft of North America, in the North Pacific Ocean, 
-idifcovered by captain Cook in 1778. Lat. 54. 27. N. 
Ion. 197. E. Greenwich. 
HALICACA'BUM, /. in botany. See Cardio- 
spermum and Physalis. 
HALICARNAS'SUS, a city of Caria, in Afia Minor, 
. and the refidence of the kings of Caria ; where Artemifia 
ereCted the monument to her hufband Maufolus : alfo. 
the birth-place of Herodotus, and Dionyfius the hifto- 
rian and critic. 
HAL'ICK, a town of Perfia, in the province of Se- 
geftan : feventy-four leagues fouth-eaft of Zareng. 
HAL'ICOUS, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Natolia : twenty miles fouth of Kiangari. 
HA'LICZ, or Halitsch, a town of Poland, and ca¬ 
pital of a fmall country to which it gives name, in the 
palatinate of Lemberg, which was formerly a kingdom, 
fituated on the Dniefter. In 1375, the archiepifcopal 
fee of Lemberg was tranflated hither; but, in 1416, it 
was removed again to Lemberg. 
HAL'IDOM, f. [halig 60m, Sax. holy judgment; or 
halig, and dame for lady.] Our blelfed lady. 
HALIE'IS, in ancient geography, a town of Ar- 
golis. 
HALIEU'TICS, f. [formed of aXieu?, Gr. fifher’man, 
which is derived from fea.] Books treating of fiflies: 
as, the Halieutics of Oppian. 
HAL'IFAX, an ancient, populous, and flouriftiing, 
town, in the Weft Riding of the county of York, with 
a capital market on Saturdays; and a fair on June 24, 
for horfes and cattle, and another on the 21ft of October. 
The town is feated on a branch of the Calder, rendered 
navigable for barges to the Aire and Oufe navigations. 
In its townfliip and parifh there are many rivulets fa¬ 
vourable to trade, affording innumerable (ituations for 
mills, for the woollen and other manufactories. The 
woollen manufactory has been tong eftablifhed in this 
parifh, and appears to have been very peculiarly foftered 
in early times, by having had the grant of a criminal 
jurifdiCtion within itfelf, for the trial by jury, and exe¬ 
cution by decollation, of fuch offenders as were found 
guilty of theft to the value of thirteen-pence half-penny. 
This jurifdiCtion was granted to the town, over that part 
of the parifh called-the Foref of Hardwicke, for the pur- 
pofe of protecting the manufacturers’ goods during the 
night, whilft they were expofed on the racks or tenters 
to dry. It appears from the hiftory of this town, that 
this jurisdiction was exercifed fo lately as the year 1632, 
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