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- 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.
- English Word Half-deck Definition See Half deck, under Deck.
- English Word Half-deck Definition A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell.
- English Word Half-decked Definition Partially decked.
- English Word Half-faced Definition Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.
- English Word Half-fish Definition A salmon in its fifth year of growth.
- English Word Half-hatched Definition Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
- English Word Half-heard Definition Imperfectly or partly heard to the end.
- English Word Half-hearted Definition Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm.
- English Word Half-hearted Definition Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind.
- English Word Half-hourly Definition Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.