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Half [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In part, or in an equal part of degree.

2. Half loth, and half consenting.

3. In composition, half denotes an equal part; or indefinitely, a part, and hence, imperfect.

Half [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. h'af. plural halves, pronoun h'avz.

2. One equal part of a thing which is divided into two parts, either in fact or in contemplation; a moiety; as half a pound; half a tract of land; half an orange; half the miseries or pleasures of life. It is applied to quantity, number, length, and every thing susceptible of division. In practice, of is often or usually omitted after half We say, half a pound; half a mile; half the number.

3. Half the misery of life.

Half [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To divide into halves. [ See Halve .]

Half [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.

2. Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge.

3. Part; side; behalf.

4. 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.

Half [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Half [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To halve. [Obs.] See Halve.

Half blood Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Half blood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A person so related to another.

2. A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed.

Half seas over Webster's Dictionary 1913

Half drunk.

Half-and-half [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.

Half-blooded [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Mean; degenerate. [Little used.]

2. Proceeding from a male and female, each of full blood, but of different breeds; as a half-blooded sheep.

Half-blooded [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.

2. Degenerate; mean.

Half-boot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.

Half-bound [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.

Half-bred [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Mixed; mongrel; mean.

Half-bred [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Half-blooded.

2. Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained.

Half-breed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Half-blooded.

Half-breed [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race.

Half-brother [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A brother by one parent, but not by both.

Half-cap [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A cap not wholly put on.

Half-caste [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Half-clammed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Half-filled.

Half-cracked [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Half-demented; half-witted.

Half-dead [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Almost dead; nearly exhausted.

Half-deck [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell.

2. See Half deck, under Deck.

Half-decked [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Partially decked.

Half-faced [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Showing only part of the face.

Half-faced [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.

Half-fish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A salmon in its fifth year of growth.

Half-hatched [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Imperfectly hatched; as half-hatched eggs.

Half-hatched [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.

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Genesis 15:10

And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.

So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.

Genesis 24:22

And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;

And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.

Exodus 24:6

And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.

Exodus 25:10

And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

And they are to construct an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Exodus 25:17

And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Exodus 25:23

Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

You are also to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Exodus 26:12

And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.

As for the overlap that remains of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over shall hang down over the back of the tabernacle.

Exodus 26:16

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Exodus 27:5

And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.

Exodus 30:13

This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.

Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.

Exodus 30:15

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.

Exodus 30:23

Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,

“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,

Exodus 36:21

The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.

Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Exodus 37:1

And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:

Bezalel went on to construct the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Exodus 37:6

And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Exodus 37:10

And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:

He also made the table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Exodus 38:4

And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.

He made a grate of bronze mesh for the altar under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.

Exodus 38:26

A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.

Leviticus 6:20

This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.

“This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must present to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.

Numbers 12:12

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”