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A measure of five and a half yards in length; a red; a perch; a pole. [Prov.Eng.]

form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.

the round, such as have vowed to sit on the skirts of the city, let your provost and his half dozen of halberdiers do what they can. B. Jonson. -- Round of beef, the part of the thigh below the aitchbone, or between the rump and the leg. See Illust. of beef. -- Round steak, a beefsteak cut from the round. -- Sculptu…

fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.

render of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.

A centaur; a fabulous being, half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver. Shak.

; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene. How much sanitation has advanced during the last half century. H. Hartshorne.

les, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.

frage, a European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga). -- Golden saxifrage, a low half-sacculent herb (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) growing in rivulets in Europe; also, C. Americanum, common in the United States. See also under Golden. -- Meadow saxifrage, or Pepper saxifrage. See under Meadow.…

that town. Fairfax. We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work. Tennyson.

A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.

Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.

An interval equal to half a comma.

Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. Hudibras. You act your kindness in Cydria's score. Dryden.

A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus.

The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked. Sear spring, the spring which causes the sear to catch in the notches by which the hammer is held.

Half of a circumference.

Half crustaceous; partially crustaceous.

A prefix signifying half, and sometimes partly or imperfectly; as, semiannual, half yearly; semitransparent, imperfectly transparent.

Half Christianized.