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61half-baked — /haf baykt , hahf /, adj. 1. insufficiently cooked. 2. not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared: a half baked proposal for tax reform. 3. lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic. [1615 25] * * * …
62halfbeak — /haf beek , hahf /, n. any of several marine fishes of the family Hemiramphidae, having a greatly elongated lower jaw. [1875 80; HALF + BEAK] * * * ▪ fish any of about 70 species of marine and freshwater fishes of the family Hemiramphidae… …
63half-blood — /haf blud , hahf /, n. 1. a half breed. 2. a person who has only one parent in common with another person, as a half sister or half brother. [1400 50; late ME half blod] * * * …
64half-blooded — /haf blud id, hahf /, adj. having parents of two different breeds, races, or the like. [1595 1605] * * * …
65half-bound — /haf bownd , hahf /, adj. bound in half binding. [1765 75] * * * …
66half-breadth plan — /haf bredth , bretth , breth , hahf /, Naval Archit. a diagrammatic plan of one half of the hull of a vessel divided lengthwise amidships, showing water lines, stations, diagonals, and bow and buttock lines. Cf. body plan, sheer plan. * * * …
67half-breed — /haf breed , hahf /, Often Disparaging and Offensive. n. 1. the offspring of parents of different racial origin, esp. the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European heritage. adj. 2. of or pertaining to such offspring. [1750… …
68half-bushel — /haf boosh euhl, hahf /, n. a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters). * * * …
69half-caste — /haf kast , hahf kahst /, n. 1. a person of mixed race. 2. a person of mixed European and Hindu or European and Muslim parentage. 3. a person descended from parents of different social strata. adj. 4. of or pertaining to a half caste. [1785 95] * …
70half-cell — /haf sel , hahf /, n. Elect. a single electrode, generally a metal, immersed in a container filled with an electrolyte, and having a specific electrical potential for a given combination of electrode and electrolyte. [1935 40] * * * …
