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of the wages or salary; reduced pay; as, an officer on half pay. -- Half price, half the ordinary price; or a price much reduced. -- Half round. (a) (Arch.) A molding of semicircular section. (b) (Mech.) Having one side flat and the other rounded; -- said of a file. -- Half shift (Mus.), a position of the hand, betw…

Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.

An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried. Bush harrow, a kind of light harrow made of bushes, for harrowing grass lands and covering seeds, or to finish the work of a toothed harrow. -- Drill harrow. See under 6th Drill. -- Under the harrow, subjected to actual torture with…

t, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.

ive direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

ally 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.

Having extraordinary strength or size; as, Herculean limbs. "Herculean Samson." Milton.

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.

elling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in ginger.

or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.

Something unusual or extraordinary. [R.]

usekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs.

A variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elastic than ordinary muscovite. Hydromica schist (Min.), a mica schist characterized by the presence of hydromica. It often has a silky luster and almost soapy feel.

Hence, anything exceeding the ordinary standard. When a man rises beyond six foot, he is an hypermeter. Addison.

. Hypermetrical verse (Gr. & Lat. Pros.), a verse which contains a syllable more than the ordinary measure.

A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron.

A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent. Life . . . is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Shak.

One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.