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sert-spoonfuls, as much as a dessert spoon will hold, usually reckoned at about two and a half fluid drams.

or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith.

To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy,

That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.

Divided into two equal parts; reduced to half in shape or form.

To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.

In counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself.

e; to render defenseless. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson.

ts; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc. A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to educate Macaulay.

rts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice. Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall. Longfellow.

ense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done. "Ere summer half be done." "I have done weeping." Shak.

extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.

A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p.m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, P. M. Totten.

A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak.

A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.

Half-rotten; as, doted wood. [Local, U. S.]

tted note (Mus.), a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes. -- Dotted rest, a rest lengthened by a dot in the same manner as a dotted note.

[Perh. a different word; cf. Totty.] Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted. [Eng.]

Half-rotten; as, doty timber. [Local, U. S.]

the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts. Shipley.