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healf

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  • adjective
  • adverb
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healf, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§64; §262; §294;
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  • Mé næs be healfan ðǽle ðín mǽrþ gecýdd

    thy greatness was not half told me,

      Homl. Th. ii. 584, 23.
  • Sié be healfum ðæm ðonne sió bót

    let the fine then be half that,

      L. Alf. pol 11; Th. i. 68, 18: 39; Th. i. 88, 2: L. M. 2, 65; Lchdm. ii. 292, 17.
  • Gé ðǽr búgiaþ on ðam fíftan dǽle healfum londes and unlondes

    ye there dwell in the half of the fifth part [in the tenth part, cf. l. 25] of land and not-land,

      Bt. 18, 1; Fox 62, 23.
  • Heó mid ðæm healfan dǽle beforan ðæm cyninge farende wæs swelce heó fleónde wǽre

    with half the army she was going before the king as if she were fleeing,

      Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 76, 27.
  • Healfne sealde ðæm þearfan and mid healfum hine sylfne besweóp

    he gave half [his cloak] to the poor man and wrapped himself up with half of it,

      Blickl. Homl. 215, 7.
  • Ðeáh ðú wylle healf míne ríce

    licet demedium regni mei,

      Mk. Skt. 6, 23: Lk. Skt. 19, 8.
  • Habban hí ðone brýce healfne and healfne ða munecas

    let them have half the usufruct, and the monk's half,

      Chart. Th. 547, 19.
  • Heó healfne forcearf ðone sweoran him

    she half cut through his neck,

      Judth. 10; Thw. 23, 4; Jud. 105.
  • Sele ðonne ðæt healf tó drincanne

    then give half of it to drink,

      L. M. 2, 2; Lchdm. ii. 180, 23.
  • Hie wǽron simle healfe æt hám healfe úte

    always half of them were at home and half out,

      Chr. 894; Erl. 90, 17: Ors. 2, 6; Swt. 86, 25.
  • Ic wille ðæt man frigæ hæalue míne men

    I desire that half my men should be freed,

      Chart. Th. 522, 5.
  • Æfter óðer healf hund daga

    after a hundred and fifty days,

      Gen. 8, 3.
  • He heóld ðæt ríce óðrum healfum læs ðe xxx wintra

    he reigned twenty-eight years and a half,

      Chr. 901; Erl. 96, 24.
  • Hit biþ óðres healfes fótes gemet bufan ðæm heáfde

    it is a foot and a half above the head,

      Shrn. 69, 2.
  • Se bát wæs geworht of þriddan healfre hýde

    the boat was made of two and a half hides,

      Chr. 891; Erl. 88, 9.
  • Ic him sylle vii æcras feórþe helfne on ánum stede and feórþe halfne an óðrum stede

    I give him seven acres, three and a half in one place and three and a half in another,

      Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 263, 12-15.
  • Nán rén ne com ofer eorþan feórþan healfangeáre

    no rain came upon the earth for three years and a half,

      Lchdm. iii. 276, 19.
  • Ðæt wæs ehtoþe healf híd

    that was seven hides and a half,

      Chart. Th. 550, 12.
  • Seofon and twentigoþan healfes fótes twenty-six feet and a half long, Lchdm. iii. 218, 4, 12, 16, 19. [Goth. halbs: O. Sax. half: O. Frs. half: Icel. hálfr: O. H. Ger. halb: O. Frs. has the same use of half with the ordinals, other, thredda, fiarda, etc., half;

    so O. H. Ger. has

    anðar halb, dritde halp, Grff. iv. 890: so Ger. In Icel. the ordinal is placed after hálfr, hálfr annarr, etc.]
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  • healf, num.; adj.; adv.