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Webster 1913 Edition

(hävz)

Noun.

pl.

By halves

by one half at once; halfway; fragmentarily; partially; incompletely.

I can not believe by

halves

; either I have faith, or I have it not.

J. H. Newman.

To go halves

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Noun.

plu.

of half. Two equal parts of a thing. To cry halves, is to claim an equal share. To go halves, is to have an equal share.