Halfer Half"er (-ẽr) noun 1. One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares. [ Obsolete] Bp. Montagu.

2. A male fallow deer gelded. Pegge (1814).

Halfness Half"ness (häf"nĕs) noun The quality of being half; incompleteness. [ R.]

As soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness , or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong.

Emerson.

Halfpace Half"pace` (-pās`) noun (Architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace .

» This term and quarterpace are rare or unknown in the United States, platform or landing being used instead.

Halfway Half"way` (häf"wā`) adverb In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded.

Temples proud to meet their gods halfway .

Young.

Halfway Half"way` adjective Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway.

Halfway covenant , a practice among the Congregational churches of New England, between 1657 and 1662, of permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy all the privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the Lord's Supper. They were also allowed to present their children for baptism. -- Halfway house , an inn or place of call midway on a journey.

Halibut Hal"i·but (hŏl"ĭ*bŭt; 277) noun [ Middle English hali holy + but , butte , flounder; akin to Dutch bot , German butte ; confer Dutch heilbot , German heilbutt . So named as being eaten on holidays. See Holy , Holiday .] (Zoology) A large, northern, marine flatfish ( Hippoglossus vulgaris ), of the family Pleuronectidæ . It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish. [ Written also holibut .]

Halichondriæ Hal`i·chon"dri·æ (hăl`ĭ*kŏn"drĭ*ē) noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek "a`ls , "alo`s , sea + cho`ndros cartilage.] (Zoology) An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea .

Halicore Hal"i·core (hăl"ĭ*kōr; Latin hȧ*lĭk"o*rē) noun [ New Latin , from Greek "a`ls sea + ko`rh maiden.] Same as Dugong .

Halidom Hal"i·dom (hăl"ĭ*dŭm) noun [ Anglo-Saxon hāligdōm holiness, sacrament, sanctuary, relics; hālig holy + - dōm , English -dom . See Holy .] 1. Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths. [ Archaic]

So God me help and halidom .

Piers Plowman.

By my halidom , I was fast asleep.

Shak.

2. Holy doom; the Last Day. [ R.] Shipley.

Halieutics Hal`i·eu"tics (-ū"tĭks) noun [ Latin halieuticus pertaining to fishing, Greek "alieytiko`s .] A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology.

Halimas Hal"i·mas (-măs) adjective [ See Hallowmas .] The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. [ Obsolete]

Haliographer Ha`li·og"ra·pher (hā`lĭ*ŏg"rȧ*fẽr or hăl`ĭ-) noun One who writes about or describes the sea.

Haliography Ha`li·og"ra·phy (-fȳ) noun [ Greek "a`ls the sea + -graphy .] Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea.

Haliotis Ha`li·o"tis (hā`lĭ*ō"tĭs or hăl`ĭ-) noun [ New Latin , from Greek "a`ls sea + o'y^s , 'wto`s , ear.] (Zoology) A genus of marine shells; the ear-shells. See Abalone .

Haliotoid Ha"li·o·toid` (hā"lĭ*o*toid` or hăl"ĭ-) adjective [ Haliotis + - oid .] (Zoology) Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis ; ear-shaped.

Halisauria Hal`i·sau"ri·a (hăl`ĭ*sa"rĭ*ȧ) noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek "a`ls , "alo`s , sea + say^ros .] (Paleon.) The Enaliosauria.

Halite Ha"lite (hā"līt or hăl"īt) noun [ Greek "a`ls salt.] (Min.) Native salt; sodium chloride.

Halituous Ha·lit"u·ous (hȧ*lĭt"u*ŭs; 135) adjective [ Latin halitus breath, vapor, from halare to breathe: confer French halitueux .] Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous. Boyle.

Halk Halk (hak) noun A nook; a corner. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Hall Hall (hal) noun [ Middle English halle , hal , Anglo-Saxon heal , heall ; akin to Dutch hal , Old Saxon & Old High German halla , German halle , Icelandic höll , and probably from a root meaning, to hide, conceal, cover. See Hell , Helmet .] 1. A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall , in London.

2. (a) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower , which was the private or sleeping apartment.

Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall .

Chaucer.

Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall: (b) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times. Hence: (c) Any corridor or passage in a building.

3. A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. Cowell.

4. A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).

5. The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.

6. Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation. [ Obsolete] "A hall ! a hall !" B. Jonson.

Syn. -- Entry; court; passage. See Vestibule .

Hall-mark Hall"-mark` (hal"märk`) noun The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.

Hallage Hall"age (-aj; 48) noun (O. Eng. Law) A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.

Halleluiah, Hallelujah Hal`le·lu"iah, Hal`le·lu"jah (hăl`le*lū"yȧ) noun & interj. [ Hebrew See Alleluia .] Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration. Rev. xix. 1 (Rev. Ver.)

So sung they, and the empyrean rung
With Hallelujahs .

Milton.

In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,"any one as he walked in the fields, might hear the plowman at his hallelujahs ."

Sharp.

Hallelujatic Hal`le·lu·jat"ic (-lu*yăt"ĭk) adjective Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs. [ R.]

Halliard Hal"liard (hăl"yẽrd) noun See Halyard .

Hallidome Hal"li·dome (hăl"lĭ*dōm) noun Same as Halidom .

Hallier Hal"li·er (hăl"lĭ*ẽr or hal"yẽr) noun [ From Hale to pull.] A kind of net for catching birds.

Halloa Hal·loa" (hăl*lō"). See Halloo .

Halloo Hal·loo" (hăl*lō") noun [ Perh. from ah + lo ; confer Anglo-Saxon ealā , German halloh , French haler to set (a dog) on. Confer Hollo , interj .] A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout.

List! List! I hear
Some far off halloo break the silent air.

Milton.

Halloo Hal·loo" intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hallooed (-lōd"); present participle & verbal noun Hallooing .] To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo .

Country folks hallooed and hooted after me.

Sir P. Sidney.

Halloo Hal·loo" transitive verb 1. To encourage with shouts.

Old John hallooes his hounds again.

Prior.

2. To chase with shouts or outcries.

If I fly . . . Halloo me like a hare.

Shak.

3. To call or shout to; to hail. Shak.

Halloo Hal·loo" interj. [ Middle English halow . See Halloo , noun ] An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one.

Hallow Hal"low (hăl"lo) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hallowed (-lod); present participle & verbal noun Hallowing .] [ Middle English halowen , halwien , halgien , Anglo-Saxon hālgian , from hālig holy. See Holy .] To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. " Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9.

Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein.

Jer. xvii. 24.

His secret altar touched with hallowed fire.

Milton.

In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [ Gettysburg].

A. Lincoln.

Halloween Hal`low·een" (hăl`lo*ēn") noun The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day. [ Scot.] Burns.

Hallowmas Hal"low·mas (hăl"lo*mȧs) noun [ See Mass the eucharist.] The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows.

To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas .

Shak.

Halloysite Hal·loy"site (hăl*loi"sīt) noun [ Named after Omalius d' Halloy .] (Min.) A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.

Hallstatt, Hallstattian Hall"statt, Hall·stat"ti·an adjective Of or pert. to Hallstatt, Austria, or the Hallstatt civilization. -- Hallstatt, or Hallstattian , civilization , a prehistoric civilization of central Europe, variously dated at from 1000 to 1500 b. c. and usually associated with the Celtic or Alpine race. It was characterized by expert use of bronze, a knowledge of iron, possession of domestic animals, agriculture, and artistic skill and sentiment in manufacturing pottery, ornaments, etc.

The Hallstattian civilization flourished chiefly in Carinthia, southern Germany, Switzerland, Bohemia, Silesia, Bosnia, the southeast of France, and southern Italy.

J. Deniker.

-- H. epoch , the first iron age, represented by the Hallstatt civilization .

Hallucal Hal"lu·cal (hăl"lu*k a l) adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the hallux.

Hallucinate Hal·lu"ci·nate (hăl*lū"sĭ*nāt) intransitive verb [ Latin hallucinatus , alucinatus , past participle of hallucinari , alucinari , to wander in mind, talk idly, dream.] To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes. [ R.] Byron.

Hallucination Hal·lu`ci·na"tion (-nā"shŭn) noun [ Latin hallucinatio : confer French hallucination .] 1. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.

This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber.

Addison.

2. (Medicine) The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion.

Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity.

W. A. Hammond.

Hallucinator Hal·lu"ci·na`tor (hăl*lū"sĭ*nā`tẽr) noun [ Latin ] One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations. N. Brit. Rev.

Hallucinatory Hal·lu"ci·na·to·ry (-nȧ*to*rȳ) adjective Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.

Hallux Hal"lux (hăl"lŭks) noun [ New Latin , from Latin hallex , allex .] (Anat.) The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.

Halm Halm (ham) noun (Botany) Same as Haulm .

Halma Hal"ma (hăl"mȧ) noun [ New Latin , from Greek "a`lma , from "a`llesqai to leap.] (Greek Antiq.) The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.

Halma Hal"ma noun A game played on a board having 256 squares, by two persons with 19 men each, or by four with 13 men each, starting from different corners and striving to place each his own set of men in a corresponding position in the opposite corner by moving them or by jumping them over those met in progress.

Halo Ha"lo (hā"lo) noun ; plural Halos (-lōz). [ Latin halos , acc. halo , Greek "a`lws a thrashing floor, also (from its round shape) the disk of the sun or moon, and later a halo round it; confer Greek e'ily`ein to enfold, 'ely`ein to roll round, Latin volvere , and English voluble .] 1. A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.

2. A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.

3. An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.

4. A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.

Halo Ha"lo transitive verb & i. [ imperfect & past participle Haloed (-lōd); present participle & verbal noun Haloing .] To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.

The fire
That haloed round his saintly brow.

Southey.

Haloed Ha"loed (hā"lōd) adjective Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified.

Some haloed face bending over me.

C. Bronté.

Halogen Hal"o·gen (hăl"o*jĕn) noun [ Greek "a`ls , "alo`s , salt + -gen : confer French halogène .] (Chemistry) An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. See Chlorine family , under Chlorine .

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