Half (a.) Consisting of a moiety, or half |
Half (a.) Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half |
Half (adv.) In an equal part or degree |
Half (a.) Part |
Half (a.) One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided |
Half (v. t.) To halve. [Obs.] See Halve. |
Half-and-half (n.) A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts. |
Half blood () The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both |
Half blood (n.) A person so related to another. |
Half blood (n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races |
Half-blooded (a.) Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races |
Half-blooded (a.) Degenerate |
Half-boot (n.) A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress. |
Half-bound (n.) Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book. |
Half-bred (a.) Half-blooded. |
Half-bred (a.) Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding |
Half-breed (a.) Half-blooded. |
Half-breed (n.) A person who is blooded |
Half-brother (n.) A brother by one parent, but not by both. |
Half-caste (n.) One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective |
Half-clammed (a.) Half-filled. |
Half-cracked (a.) Half-demented |
Half-deck (n.) A shell of the genus Crepidula |
Half-deck (n.) See Half deck, under Deck. |
Half-decked (a.) Partially decked. |
Half-faced (a.) Showing only part of the face |
Half-fish (n.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth. |
Half-hatched (a.) Imperfectly hatched |
Half-heard (a.) Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. |
Half-hearted (a.) Wanting in heart or spirit |
Half-hearted (a.) Lacking zeal or courage |
Half-hourly (a.) Done or happening at intervals of half an hour. |
Half-learned (a.) Imperfectly learned. |
Half-length (a.) Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture. |
Half-mast (n.) A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff |
Half-moon (n.) The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated. |
Half-moon (n.) The shape of a half-moon |
Half-moon (n.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon |
Half-moon (n.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Caesiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna. |
Half-pike (n.) A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships |
Half-port (n.) One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole. |
Half-ray (n.) A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions. |
Half-read (a.) Informed by insufficient reading |
Half seas over () Half drunk. |
Half-sighted (a.) Seeing imperfectly |
Half-sister (n.) A sister by one parent only. |
Half-strained (a.) Half-bred |
Half-sword (n.) Half the length of a sword |
Half-timbered (a.) Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry |
Half-tounue (n.) A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens. |
round trip | a trip to some place and back again |
round daily round | the usual activities in your day, the doctor made his rounds |
half gainer | a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board |
round of golf round | the activity of playing holes of golf, a round of golf takes about hours |
round dance round dancing | a ballroom dance characterized by revolving movement |
round dance ring dance | a folk dance, dancers form a circle |
half volley | a tennis return made by hitting the ball immediately after it bounces |
half nelson | a wrestling hold in which the holder puts an arm under the opponent's arm and exerts pressure on the back of the neck |
round-thelock patrol | a continuous nonstop patrol |
round | (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order), the doctor goes on his rounds first thing every morning, the postman's rounds, we enjoyed our round of the local bars |
quahog quahaug hard-shell clam hard clam round clam Venus mercenaria Mercenaria mercenaria | an edible American clam, the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians |
jacksnipe half snipe Limnocryptes minima | a small short-billed Old World snipe |
round-tailed muskrat Florida water rat Neofiber alleni | of Florida wetlands |
round whitefish Menominee whitefish Prosopium cylindraceum | a whitefish with a bronze back, of northern North America and Siberia |
round scad cigarfish quiaquia Decapterus punctatus | small fusiform fish of western Atlantic |
arena theater theater in the round | a theater arranged with seats around at least three sides of the stage |
buskin combat boot desert boot half boot top boot | a boot reaching halfway up to the knee |
cannonball cannon ball round shot | a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon |
circle round | any circular or rotating mechanism, the machine punched out metal circles |
circus tent big top round top top | a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance, he was afraid of a fire in the circus tent, they had the big top up in less than an hour |
domino half mask eye mask | a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes |
Dutch door half door | an exterior door divided in two horizontally, either half can be closed or open independently |
half binding | book binding in which the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another |
half cross stitch | a single cross stitch at a diagonal |
half hatchet | a hatchet with a broad blade on one end and a hammer head of the other |
half hitch | a knot used to fasten a rope temporarily to an object, usually tied double |
half-length | a portrait showing the body from only the waist up |
half sole | shoe sole extending from the shank to the toe |
half track | a track that goes around only rear wheels |
half track | a motor vehicle propelled by half tracks, frequently used by the military |
ovolo thumb quarter round | a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse |
petticoat half-slip underskirt | undergarment worn under a skirt |
round unit of ammunition one shot | a charge of ammunition for a single shot |
round arch | an arch formed in a continuous curve, characteristic of Roman architecture |
round-bottom flask | a spherical flask with a narrow neck |
round file | a file with a circular cross section, used to file the inside of holes |
Round Table King Arthur's Round Table | (legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights |
rung round stave | a crosspiece between the legs of a chair |
half-intensity | half the maximum intensity |
round bone | bones that are round in shape |
round ligament of the uterus ligamentum teres uteri | ligament attached to the uterus on either side in front of and below the opening of the Fallopian tube and passing through the inguinal canal to the labia majora |
fenestra rotunda fenestra cochleae round window fenestra of the cochlea | fenestra leading into the cochlea |
half-moon lunula lunule | the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail |
split-half correlation chance-half correlation | a correlation coefficient calculated between scores on two halves of a test, taken as an indication of the reliability of the test |
half page | something that covers (the top or bottom) half of a page |
half title bastard title | a first page of some books displaying only the title of the book |
round hand | a clearly written style of longhand with large round curves |
round-trip ticket return ticket | a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route) |
round robin | a letter signed by a number of people |
round | an outburst of applause, there was a round of applause |