Halve: alternatives and connections

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more defin…

A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.

A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.

Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.

Consisting of only one half of what the normal condition requires; having the appearance of lacking one half; as, a dimidiate leaf, wh…

A monster, half maid and half serpent.

Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.

A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.

A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art.

In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half p…

half milk and half light cream; contains 10% to 18% butterfat

Half-demented; half-witted.

Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as wh…

A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.

Turned half round; half inverted.

A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.

To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words…