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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Half \Half\, n.; pl {Halves}. [AS. healf. See {Half}, a.] 1. Part side behalf. [Obs.] --Wyclif. The four halves of the house. --Chaucer. 2. One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of as a half of an apple. Not half his riches known and yet despised. --Milton. A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between us --Tennyson. {Better half}. See under {Better}. {In half}, in two an expression sometimes used improperly instead of in or into halves; as to cut in half. [Colloq.] --Dickens. {In, or On}, {one's half}, in one's behalf; on one's part [Obs.] {To cry halves}, to claim an equal share with another. {To go halves}, to share equally between two From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Halves \Halves\, n., pl of {Half}. {By halves}, by one half at once; halfway; fragmentarily; partially; incompletely. I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or I have it not --J. H. Newman. {To go halves}. See under {Go}.
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