dictionary

1: 50 years

1: inadequately clothed [syn: {scantily clad}, {underclothed}]

1: confusion resulting from lack of preparation

1: driven insane [syn: {crazed}, {deranged}]

1: a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length [syn: {Morchella semilibera}, {cow's head}]

1: (of plants) requiring protection from frost; "half-hardy annuals"

1: without enthusiasm; in a half-hearted manner; "she tried half-heartedly"

1: a day on which half is free from work or duty

1: a half of an hour [syn: {30 minutes}]

1: occurring every half hour adv : every thirty minutes, every half hour

1: half the maximum intensity

1: representing only the upper half of the body; "a half-length portrait" 2: abridged to half its original length n : a portrait showing the body from only the waist up

1: the time required for something to fall to half its initial value (in particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate) [syn: {half life}]

1: a grayish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors)

1: a position some distance below the top of the mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress

1: the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail [syn: {lunula}, {lunule}] 2: the time at which the moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated

1: reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time

1: disparaging terms for small people [syn: {runt}, {shrimp}, {peewee}]

1: for half the price; "she bought it half-price during the sale"

1: a sculptural relief between low relief and high relief [syn: {mezzo-relievo}, {mezzo-rilievo}]

1: British informal for `intoxicated'

1: half the usual or regular size

1: undergarment worn under a skirt [syn: {petticoat}, {underskirt}]

1: a short vacation about halfway through a school term; "he came to visit at half-term"

1: having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture [syn: {half-timbered}]

1: having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture [syn: {half-timber}]

1: involving half the standard or customary time for an activity; "he had two years of half-time training" adv : for less than the standard number of hours; "he works part-time" [syn: {part-time}] [an...

1: having caterpillar treads on the rear and wheels in front; "half-track armored vehicles" [syn: {half-tracked}]

1: having caterpillar treads on the rear and wheels in front; "half-track armored vehicles" [syn: {half-track}]

1: a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead

1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: {idiot}, {imbecile}, {cretin}, {moron}, {changeling}, {retard}] 2: a stupid incompetent person [syn: {dimwit}, {nitwit}, {doofus}]

1: lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety [syn: {dim-witted}, {simple}, {simple-minded}] 2: mentally deficient [syn: {feebleminded}, {slow-witted}]

1: every half year, every six months

1: (football) the running back who plays the offensive halfback position 2: the position of a back on a football team

1: tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw

1: feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; "a halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the candidate" [syn: {lukewarm}]

1: an English coin worth half a penny [syn: {ha'penny}]

1: the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny [syn: {ha'p'orth}]

1: an intermission between the first and second half of a game

1: a print obtained from photoengraving 2: an engraving used to reproduce an illustration [syn: {halftone engraving}, {photoengraving}]

1: an engraving used to reproduce an illustration [syn: {halftone}, {photoengraving}]

1: equally distant from the extremes [syn: {center(a)}, {middle(a)}, {midway}] 2: at a point midway between two extremes; "at the halfway mark" 3: including only half or a portion; "halfway measures" ...

{halfway}

1: a genus of Accipitridae [syn: {genus Haliaeetus}]

1: large North American eagle having a white head and dark wings and body [syn: {bald eagle}, {American eagle}]

1: of southeast Europe and central Asia [syn: {fishing eagle}]

1: found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific [syn: {Kamchatkan sea eagle}, {Stellar's sea eagle}]

1: bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland [syn: {ern}, {erne}, {gray sea eagle}, {European sea eagle}, {white-tailed sea eagle}]

1: lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific 2: marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes [syn: {holibut}...

1: a fatty oil from halibut livers that is used as a source of vitamin A

1: a genus of Labridae [syn: {genus Halicoeres}]

1: small wrasse of tropical Atlantic [syn: {slippery dick}]

1: bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil [syn: {puddingwife}, {pudding-wife}]

1: a family of small solitary bees; many are valuable pollinators for agriculture [syn: {family Halictidae}]

1: a salt of any halogen acid

1: provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia

1: 1 species: salt tree [syn: {genus Halimodendron}]

1: spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery-downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms [syn: {salt tree}, {Halimodendron halodendron}]

1: spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery-downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms [syn: {salt tree}, {Halimodendron argenteum}]

1: abalones [syn: {family Haliotidae}]