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Half-fish :: Half-fish (n.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth.

Leash :: Leash (n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general..

Nicker :: Nicker (v. t.) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.

Semiaxis :: Semiaxis (n.) One half of the axis of an /llipse or other figure.

Half-bound :: Half-bound (n.) Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book..

Pro- :: Pro- () A prefix signifying before, in front, forth, for, in behalf of, in place of, according to; as, propose, to place before; proceed, to go before or forward; project, to throw forward; prologue, part spoken before (the main piece); propel, prognathous; provide, to look out for; pronoun, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts..

Cocktail :: Cocktail (n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward..

Undivided :: Undivided (a.) Not set off, as a share in a firm; not made actually separate by division; as, a partner, owning one half in a firm, is said to own an undivided half so long as the business continues and his share is not set off to him..

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated..

Reformed :: Reformed (a.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.

Semilens :: Semilens (n.) The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.

Half-hourly :: Half-hourly (a.) Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.

Palet :: Palet (n.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale..

Demiman :: Demiman (n.) A half man.

Bekah :: Bekah (n.) Half a shekel.

Semiangle :: Semiangle (n.) The half of a given, or measuring, angle..

Demigorge :: Demigorge (n.) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion..

Halfbeak :: Halfbeak (n.) Any slender, marine fish of the genus Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; -- called also balahoo..

Harquebuse :: Harquebuse (n.) A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock..

Throttle :: Throttle (v. t.) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated..

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