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Webster 1913 Edition

(häl′ve)

Noun.

A half.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

(häv)

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Halved

(hävd)

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Halving

[From

To divide into two equal parts;

as, to

halve

an apple

; to be or form half of.

So far apart their lives are thrown
From the twin soul that

halves

their own.

M. Arnold.

(Arch.)

To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

Verb.

h`av. [from half.] To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple.