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A half brigade.

An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.

A half devil. Shak.

A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.

A half groat.

A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.

A half man. [R.] Knolles.

Having half the nature of another. [R.] Shak.

A note of half the length of the quaver; a semiquaver. [R.]

Half relief. See Demi-rilievo.

A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.

The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint.

A half-vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges. Blackstone.

A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.

A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.

A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also demi.] He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.

s deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce. By deputation, or In deputation, by delegated authority; as substitute; through the medium of a deputy. [Obs.] Say to great Cæsar this: In deputa…

appointed as the substitue of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc. There was then [in the days of Jehoshaphat] no king in Edom; a deputy was king.…

A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball.