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's knot in a rope; half of a clove hitch. -- Half hose, short stockings; socks. -- Half measure, an imperfect or weak line of action. -- Half note (Mus.), a minim, one half of a semibreve. -- Half pay, half of the wages or salary; reduced pay; as, an officer on half pay. -- Half price, half the ordinary price; or…

A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.

surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.

High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic] To measure the most haughty mountain's height. Spenser. Equal unto this haughty enterprise. Spenser

To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.

A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.

A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois.

A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26

A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.

A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.

A yarn measure of six hundred yards or of a spindle. See Spindle.

ve that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature. Bacon. [Goliath's] height was six cubits and a span. 1 Sam. xvii. 4.

ument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer.

Relating to the measurement of the amount of hematin or hemoglobin contained in blood, or other fluids.

A measure of half a sextary. Arbuthnot.

A measure of two hanks of linen thread. [Scot.] [Written also hasp.] Knight.

A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres. [Written also hyde.]

Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure. W. H. Ward.