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Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.

A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.

An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.

An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.

An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder.

Helped. [Obs.]

See Haut pas.

The neck or throat. [Obs.] Do me hangen by the hals. Chaucer.

To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet. [Obs.] Each other kissed glad And lovely halst. Spenser.

Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough. [Obs.] Carew.

See Hawser. Pope.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who halts or limps

A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.

In a halting or limping manner.

Impure ore; dirty ore.

A half. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.

pl. of Half. By halves, by one half at once; halfway; fragmentarily; partially; incompletely. I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or I have it not. J. H. Newman. To go halves. See under Go.