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half-year The half of a year; six months. As a space of time, expressed by half a year. b. In Schools, etc. = half n. 6 a.
c907in Earle Land Charters 164 Ymb an oðer healf ᵹear. 1154O.E. Chron. an. 1137, xx wintre & half ᵹær & viii dæis. c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 51 A child þat was of half yeer age. 1473J. Warkworth Chron. 3 He departed oute of Englonde after halff ȝere. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. i. 136, I am out of feare Of death, or deaths hand, for this one halfe yeare. 1611Florio, Mezzannata, a halfe-yeares rent. 1718Freethinker No. 56. 3 I can open this Half-year with congratulating my Disciples. 1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. i, The Doctor now talking of holiday doings, and then of the prospects of the half-year, what chance there was for the Balliol scholarship [etc.]. |