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A measure equal to one tenth of a line. [Obs.] Locke.

Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

ference of pitch or interval, used in music. -- Half tide, the time or state of the tide equally distant from ebb and flood. -- Half time, half the ordinary time for work or attendance; as, the half-time system. -- Half tint (Fine Arts), a middle or intermediate tint, as in drawing or painting. See Demitint. -- Hal…

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

A jury, for the trial of a fore foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.

Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway. Halfway covenant, a practice among the Congregational churches of New England, between 1657 and 1662, of permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy all the privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the…

To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of. So far apart their lives are thrown From the twin soul that halves their own. M. Arnold.

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

A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii. 12.

eight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like.

Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.

t. Jer. xvii. 11. For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen] bring life into them and hatch them. Robynson (More's Utopia).

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

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 nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.

A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.

A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces.

Unequal growth of a cell, or of a part of a plant.

Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.