halfen
English
Etymology
From half.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɑːfən/
Adjective
halfen (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Lacking half of its due qualities.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- So perfect in that art was Paridell,
That he Malbeccoes halfen eye did wyle
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for halfen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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