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ˈhalflang, n. and a. Sc.
Also 9 haaflang.
[f. half + lang, long; but prob. in part altered by popular etymology from halfling.]
A. n. = halfling n. 1.
1660in Ure Hist. Rutherglen (1793) 65 (Jam.) A man servand, of younger yeires, commonlie a halflang.
b. (See quot.)
1875Encycl. Brit. I. 393/2 A cross betwixt the Cheviot ram and blackfaced ewe..known by the name of Halflangs.
B. adj.
1. = halfling a.
1805J. Nicol Poems II. (Jam.), The haaf-lang chiels assemblin there.
2. Of half length.
1581Satir. Poems Reform. xliv. 188 Braggand Forguson, Vith halflang suord. |