halfling

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Honestly, I don't know why they couldn't have just followed Venger to the Hall instead of him all of a sudden losing interest in them, especially when you consider the next sequence in the story where he disguises himself as Hector the halfling (who fulfills Dungeon Master's prophecy to lead them to the Hall of Bones.)

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  1. A halfpenny; the half of an old silver penny. “Not a shekel, not a silver penny, not a hafling, so help me the God of Abraham!” said the Jew. Scott, Ivanhoe, v.
  2. A half-grown person; a stripling. Wages of a man servant, … £10; … of a halflin, … £5. Statist. Acc. of Scotland, xii. 304.
  3. A half-witted person.
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  • I was as mad as a loon until this morning I've been looking for the Sick Heart River since I was a halfling, and Galliard come along and gave me my chance at last. —  SICK HEART RIVER
  • Funny, the very last time he tried I grabbed up my halfling and gnome companions in the crook of my arms and plane shifted outta there. —  Popular in the last 8 hours
  • Kirkland kills the halfling underneath the structure who comes out of the wall. —  Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • Honestly, I don't know why they couldn't have just followed Venger to the Hall instead of him all of a sudden losing interest in them, especially when you consider the next sequence in the story where he disguises himself as Hector the halfling (who fulfills Dungeon Master's prophecy to lead them to the Hall of Bones.) —  Branded in the 80s!
  • Regis, the halfling, doesn't change as much, but he's much more mature than I remember, and events from past novels are weighing on him. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
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  1. Scots also hafling, halflin, haflin, hafflin; from half + -ling.
 

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