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- English Word Halcyonian Definition Halcyon; calm.
- English Word Halcyonold Definition See Alcyonoid.
- English Word Hale Definition Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
- English Word Hale Definition Welfare.
- English Word Hale Definition To pull; to drag; to haul.
- English Word Haled Definition of Hale
- English Word Halesia Definition A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels.
- English Word Half Definition Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
- English Word Half Definition Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge.
- English Word Half Definition In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious.
- English Word Half Definition Part; side; behalf.
- English Word Half Definition 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.
- English Word Half Definition To halve. [Obs.] See Halve.
- English Word Half blood Definition A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed.
- English Word Half blood Definition A person so related to another.
- English Word Half blood Definition 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.
- English Word Half seas over Definition Half drunk.
- English Word Half-and-half Definition A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
- English Word Half-blooded Definition Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.
- English Word Half-blooded Definition Degenerate; mean.
- English Word Half-boot Definition A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.
- English Word Half-bound Definition Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.
- English Word Half-bred Definition Half-blooded.
- English Word Half-bred Definition Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained.
- English Word Half-breed Definition Half-blooded.
- English Word Half-breed Definition A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race.
- English Word Half-brother Definition A brother by one parent, but not by both.
- English Word Half-caste Definition One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective; as, half-caste parents.
- English Word Half-clammed Definition Half-filled.
- English Word Half-cracked Definition Half-demented; half-witted.