All heedless of his dearest hale.
Spenser.
Hale (hl or hl; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haled (hld or hld); p. pr. &
vb. n. Haling.] [OE. halen, halien; cf. AS. holian, to acquire, get.
See Haul.] To pull; to drag; to haul. See Haul. Chaucer.
Easier both to freight, and to hale ashore.
Milton.
As some dark priest hales the reluctant victim.
Shelley.
||Ha*le"si*a (h*l"zh*), n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of American shrubs
||containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell
||trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels.
Half (h‰f), a. [AS. healf, half, half; as a noun, half, side, part;
akin to OS., OFries., & D. half, G. halb, Sw. half, Dan. halv, Icel.
hlfr, Goth. halbs. Cf. Halve, Behalf.] 1. Consisting of a moiety, or
half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
The adjective and noun are often united to form a compound.
2. Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half;
approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a
half dream; half knowledge.
Assumed from thence a half consent.
Tennyson.
Half ape (Zoˆl.), a lemur. -- Half back. (Football) See under 2d Back.
-- Half bent, the first notch, for the sear point to enter, in the
tumbler of a gunlock; the halfcock notch. -- Half binding, a style of
bookbinding in which only the back and corners are in leather. -- Half
boarder, one who boards in part; specifically, a scholar at a boarding
school who takes dinner only. -- Half-breadth plan (Shipbuilding), a
horizontal plan of one half a vessel, divided lengthwise, showing the
lines. -- Half cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the dominant. -- Half cap,
a slight salute with the cap. [Obs.] Shak. -- At half cock, the
position of the cock of a gun when retained by the first notch. -- Half
hitch, a sailor's knot in a rope; half of a clove hitch. -- Half hose,
short stockings; socks. -- Half measure, an imperfect or weak line of
action. -- Half note (Mus.), a minim, one half of a semibreve. -- Half
pay, half of the wages or salary; reduced pay; as, an officer on half
pay. -- Half price, half the ordinary price; or a price much reduced.
-- Half round. (a) (Arch.) A molding of semicircular section. (b)
(Mech.) Having one side flat and the other rounded; -- said of a file.
-- Half shift (Mus.), a position of the hand, between the open position
and the first shift, in playing on the violin and kindred instruments.
See Shift. -- Half step (Mus.), a semitone; the smallest difference of
pitch or interval, used in music. -- Half tide, the time or state of
the tide equally distant from ebb and flood. -- Half time, half the
ordinary time for work or attendance; as, the half-time system. -- Half
tint (Fine Arts), a middle or intermediate tint, as in drawing or
painting. See Demitint. -- Half truth, a statement only partially true,
or which gives only a part of the truth. Mrs. Browning. -- Half year,
the space of six months; one term of a school when there are two terms
in a year.
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Half, adv. In an equal part or degree; in some part approximating a
half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done,
half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious. "Half loth and half
consenting." Dryden.
Their children spoke halfin the speech of Ashdod.
Neh. xiii. 24.
Half (h‰f), n.; pl. Halves (h‰vz). [AS. healf. See Half, a.] 1. Part;
side; behalf. [Obs.] Wyclif.
The four halves of the house.
Chaucer.
2. One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or
considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an
apple.
Not half his riches known, and yet despised.
Milton.
A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between us.
Tennyson.
Better half. See under Better. - - In half, in two; an expression
sometimes used improperly instead of in or into halves; as, to cut in
half. [Colloq.] Dickens. -- In, or On, one's half, in one's behalf; on
one's part. [Obs.] -- To cry halves, to claim an equal share with
another. -- To go halves, to share equally between two.
Half, v. t. To halve. [Obs.] See Halve. Sir H. Wotton.
Half`-and-half", n. A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale,
in about equal parts. Dickens.
Half"beak` (h‰f"bk`), n. (Zoˆl.) Any slender, marine fish of the genus
Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; --
called also balahoo.
Half" blood` (bld). 1. The relation between persons born of the same
father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister
of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4.