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A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left. B. G. Wilder.

A lateral half of the cerebrum. Wilder.

A half circle; a semicircle.

The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.

Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it…

Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full number of planes.

Having half as many (three) carboxyl radicals as mellitic acid; -- said of an organic acid.

A measure of half a sextary. Arbuthnot.

A defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at.

A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

A half of a spheroid.

A half spherule.

Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.

Turned half round; half inverted.

Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.

From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. "Half an hour hence." Shak.

as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects. Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain. Southey.

A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin. Milton.

noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.

een these two, respectively. -- Flat hoop, a wooden hoop dressed flat on both sides. -- Half-round hoop, a wooden hoop left rounding and undressed on the outside. -- Hoop iron, iron in thin narrow strips, used for making hoops. -- Hoop lock, the fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlo…