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  • noun Archaic spelling of half.
  • adverb Archaic spelling of half.

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Examples

  • Then the great hall is divided in halfe by the Staircase, wch hangs on its own work not supported of Either Side, to the first half pace and all the way up without Support, on the one Side they are of oake, the railes and Banisters are varnished.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • _Of your verses perfect and defectiue; and that which the Graecians called the halfe foote.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Of your verses perfect and defectiue, and that which the Graecians called the halfe-foote.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • She said, if there was either more or lesse then foure and tuentie whole peeces, and two halfe ones, it sould be none of hers; and that they were put by her in a red velvet purse.

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • The vault into which the waste falls is also shown, and he reminds the reader always remember that at noone and at night, emptie it and leave it halfe a foote deepe in fayre water.

    Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

  • When he returned home, he built a privy and hung a statue of Ajax over the door “with so grim a countenance, that the aspect of it being full of terrour, was halfe as good as a suppository,” and called the place Ajax.

    Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

  • I think myself a most unhappy man, in that I have never yet been able to pay my respects to you with youre consent, for one halfe-hour.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • The vault into which the waste falls is also shown, and he reminds the reader always remember that at noone and at night, emptie it and leave it halfe a foote deepe in fayre water.

    Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

  • When he returned home, he built a privy and hung a statue of Ajax over the door “with so grim a countenance, that the aspect of it being full of terrour, was halfe as good as a suppository,” and called the place Ajax.

    Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

  • Vpon those dayes when they enter into their temples, they place two long foormes therein: [Bookes.] and so sitting vpon the sayd foormes like singing men in a quier, namely the one halfe of them directly ouer against the other, they haue certaine books in their hands, which sometimes they lay downe by them vpon the foormes: and their heads are bare so long as they remaine in the temple.

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

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