half-bloodn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈhɑːfblʌd/, U.S.

/ˈhæfˌbləd/

Forms: see half adj. and blood n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: half adj., blood n.

Etymology: < half adj. + blood n.Compare Anglo-Norman demi sanc (a1321).

A. n.

1. The state or fact of having one parent in common with another person; the relationship between people having one parent in common. Usually in of (also by) (the) half blood: by inheritance or descent from one parent only; (formerly also occasionally) †having parents of different races or nationalities; of mixed descent (obsolete). Cf. of the full blood at full-blood n. 1, of the whole blood at whole blood n. 1a. Now somewhat dated.Formerly (esp. in legal contexts) occasionally also denoting a relationship between people with one common (recent) ancestor, e.g. a grandparent.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > [noun] > having one parent in common > relationship of

half-blood1553

1445–6 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1445 §26. m. 9 No maner Walssh man of hole blode, ne half blode on the fader side..be made denisen or Englissh.

?1535 C. St. German Answere Let. vi. sig. E.vi^v The grounde of the lawe is, that one of the halfe blode shall neuer be heyre to him that he is but of y^e half blode vnto.

1553 Lett. Patent Edw. VI 16 June in Chron. Queen Jane & Queen Mary (1850) 93 For that the said Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth be unto us but of the halfe bloud.

1609 T. Egerton Speech Lord Chancellor (new ed.) 36 No respect of Halfe Blood.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xx. 129 What, is a brother by the half bloud no kinne?

1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. viii. 43 The distinction..between those of the whole, and those of the half Blood of Athens.

1729 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 273 Besides..she was but Sister by the Half Blood of K. Edward VI and so could not Inherit as Heir to him.

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xiv. 227 He is only his brother of the half blood, and for that reason they shall never inherit to each other.

1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 147 That rich oriental olive which distinguishes the haughty offspring of the half blood of French or Spaniards.

1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law x. 64 The brother of the half-blood, on the part of the father, will inherit next after the sisters of the whole blood on the part of the father and their issue.

1922 Daily Herald (Adelaide) 19 Oct. 5/4 He directed..that none of his relatives by half-blood should attend his funeral.

1969 Ontario Rep. II. 882 One nephew and one of the two nieces of the full-blood now appeal seeking to exclude those of the half-blood from taking under the residuary clause.

1994 M. M. Mahoney Stepfamilies & Law iii. 59 C-1 and C-3 are siblings of the half blood, because they had different fathers.

2. A person related to another through having one parent in common. Also: (with the and plural agreement) such people considered collectively. Cf. whole blood n. 1b. Now somewhat dated.Formerly (esp. in legal contexts) occasionally also denoting people with one common (recent) ancestor, e.g. a grandparent; see e.g. quot. 1875.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] > relative by half-blood

of (the) half blood1697

half-blood1848

1590 Reasons for Gen. Registry Marriages (BL MS Lansdowne 64/30) f. 82 The entrance of the baptismes as it shalbe prouided for wilbe clere deciphoringe of all halfe Bluddes.

1698 B. Shower Cases Parl. 109 The half Blood are in equal degree of Kindred with the whole Blood, and ought to have an equal Share of the Personal Estate.

1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 942/1 A competition between the full blood and the half blood.

1785 P. Lovelass Will which Law Makes i. 4 The half blood is admitted to the administration as well as the whole.

1809 T. Day Rep. Supreme Court Errors Connecticut 2 116 The half blood were held to be entitled, under the old statute, to share equally with the whole blood in the inheritance of their common ancestor.

1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. x. 341 By the change effected by the Inheritance Act, the half-blood, if descended from a common male ancestor, is to take next after any relation in the same degree of the whole blood.

1916 Northwestern Reporter 154 67/1 By the common law the half bloods were never permitted to inherit.

2005 P. Wendel Wills, Trusts, & Estates ii. 33 The majority of the American jurisdictions have abolished the old common law rule and treat half-bloods the same as whole bloods.

a. An animal having one pure-bred parent; an animal of mixed breed. Also (in of (the) half-blood): †the state or condition of having one pure-bred parent; cf. sense A. 1 (obsolete).

1778 A. Wight Present State Husbandry in Scotl. II. 460 I next surveyed the year-olds. Those of half blood and those of the original stock..were all fed on the same pasture.

1791 C. Hamilton in tr. Hedàya II. ix. iv. 175 (note) A heavy draft horse... A first blood... A packhorse... An half blood.

1868 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 11 417 Nothing could be more irrational than to take animals of the half blood as regenerators to ameliorate a race.

1892 E. A. Carman et al. Special Rep. Hist. & Present Condition Sheep Industry U.S. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) i. i. 81 A ram lamb 1 year old, a half blood, gave 23 pounds the quarter well furnished with rough fat.

1903 Science 6 Mar. 386/1 The breed selected for crossing was the Polled Angus, and the half-bloods resembled these more than they did the buffalo, being black, of the same build, and often hornless.

2011 R. Mikesell & M. Baker Animal Sci. Biol. & Technol. (ed. 3) ix. 171 This involved breeding purebred bulls to crossbred (or purebreds of another breed) cows and registering the progeny or offspring as half-bloods.

b. Chiefly U.S. Wool derived from cross-bred sheep having one Merino parent, or (more generally) wool of a relatively fine grade characteristic of such sheep. Cf. sense B. 3b.

1807 Lit. Mag. & Amer. Reg. Sept. 125/1 This wool was worth at least 8s., though sold at 5s., the rate at which the half blood sold.

1944 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 27 Oct. 14/2 Fleeces as fine as half blood are rarely found in ram lambs at the time of culling.

2021 Times of India (Nexis) 1 Mar. The wool from cross-bred sheep is called ‘half-blood’, is coarser and does not command the high value that fine grade does.

4. Originally and chiefly North American. A person of mixed ancestry, origin, or descent; esp. one having parents or ancestors of different ethnicities or nationalities. Often with reference to a person of mixed North American Indian and white European descent. Now chiefly historical (and likely to be offensive).See note at sense B. 1.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person

mongrel1542

of (the) half blood1697

half-caste1758

half-breed1760

lip-lap1798

quarter-breed1821

half-blood1826

half-and-half1827

quarter-blood1827

quarter-caste1859

mixed blooda1862

brown1862

miscegen1864

yellowbelly1867

breed1870

redbone1890

miscegenate1898

high yellow1910

samba1958

lightie1991

1824 W. N. Blane Excursion through U.S. & Canada xxiii. 408 As the white men occasionally form a very intimate acquaintance with the Squaws, a race of what the Americans call half-bloods is the consequence.

1836 S. Parker Jrnl. Tour beyond Rocky Mts. 14 Apr. (1838) xx. 264 A half-blood, named Baptiste,..took the stern.

1915 Manitoba Free Press 14 Aug. 11/6 The statures of Indians and half-bloods show differences in favor of the half-bloods.

1959 E. Webb Mark of Sun 112 Anyone with twenty-five per cent of aboriginal blood in him is legally classified as a half-blood under Queensland law.

1973 Mt. Vernon (Illinois) Reg.-News 10 Dec. 4 a/2 (caption) Half bloods—Born of wartime encounters between American GIs and Korean women.

2005 W. Marder Indians in Americas v. 81 The main damage was from the attitudes and customs the half-bloods acquired from their white parents.

B. adj.

1. Of mixed ancestry, origin, or descent; esp. having parents or ancestors of different ethnicities or nationalities. Often with reference to a person of mixed North American Indian and white European descent. Cf. half-blooded adj. 2a. Now somewhat dated and in most contexts potentially offensive.The word is now probably most familiar from its use in J. K. Rowling's 2005 novel Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and the 2009 film of the same name, in which it referred to a character's mixed parentage as the offspring of a witch and a Muggle.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person

mongrel1566

mulatto-like1719

half-breeda1762

mixed breed1775

half-caste1789

half-blood1830

three-quarter-bred1902

quarter-caste1952

biracial1963

multiracial1964

1684 Mr. Amhurst tr. Marcus Crassus in J. Dryden tr. Plutarch Lives III. 650 The first that met him were two half blood Greecians.

1830 in Wisconsin State Hist. Soc. Coll. (1892) XII. 185 He is a half Blood St. Regis, with a half Blood Menomonie wife.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxi. 406 A handsome half-blood daughter married to a white man.

1927 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 9 Feb. 6/1 Indian half-blood girls are much more likely to marry white men than Indian men are likely to marry white women.

1952 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Mar. 15/4 I remarked to Townie, a half-blood aboriginal yardman, that he, no doubt, didn't feel the heat.

2014 New Scientist 8 Feb. 28/1 You might have two grandparents who are half blood.

2. Related to another person by one parent only; having one parent in common. Also: defined or characterized by this relationship. Now somewhat dated.Formerly (esp. in legal contexts) occasionally also designating (the relationship between) people with one common (recent) ancestor, e.g. a grandparent.

1714 A. Bruce Tutor's Guide ii. iii. 242 Tho that half Blood Relation have been given Dative in Exchequer.

1816 Carolina Law Repository Sept. 593 If the half blood brother of the line of the first purchaser is permitted to exclude the brother who is not of that line.

1861 Rep. High Court Mississippi 38 148 If it has no other heirs, the uncle inherits by his half-blood position.

1882 A. Macfarlane Consanguinity 17 Aunt, half-blood..Brother, half-blood.

1941 Yale Law Jrnl. 50 1094 Alleging that the decree had been fraudulently procured by the full blood heirs, the half blood heirs brought an action in the Oklahoma court to set it aside.

2015 Croydon Advertiser (Nexis) 13 Aug. 5 Mr Fraser's grandparents appear to have married just the once and therefore it is believed no half-blood relatives exist.

a. Of an animal: having one pure-bred parent; of mixed breed.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > cross-breeding or hybridization

bigenerous1610

hybridan1623

mongrel1633

hybridous1691

mule1728

hybrid1775

cross-bred1856

hybridizablea1864

paragenesic1864

hybridized1872

cross1886

monohybrid1903

outbred1903

intergeneric1921

polyhybrid1922

reticulate1938

trihybrid1941

inter-strain1950

the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > of livestock > kept for breeding > ill-bred

bastarda1398

half-bred1701

scrub1744

cross-bred1856

underbred1890

1764 Maryland Gaz. 8 Mar. On the second Thursday in May next, will be Run for, on the Race-Ground adjoining to said Town [sc. Chester], a Purse of Thirty Pistoles, free for any Horse, Mare, or Gelding, not more than half Blood.

1770 C. Varlo New Syst. Husbandry III. xxvii. 327 This is a good time to give your mares to the stallion; make use of such a one as is broad and strong, short-jointed, moves light, and goes true on his legs, what is called half-blood.

1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 52 I have slaughtered two half-blood heifers, which have weighed at four years old over 700 lbs.

1978 Horseman Apr. 80/2 A cheap alternative to purebred prices may be the primary reason buyers select half-blood horses.

2018 Tel. Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) (Nexis) 8 Mar. a5 We had a herd of 22 full-blood and three half-blood females.

b. Chiefly U.S. Designating wool derived from cross-bred sheep having one Merino parent, or (more generally) a relatively fine grade of wool characteristic of such sheep. Cf. sense A. 3b.

1828 Trumpet & Universalist Mag. 30 Aug. 35 Calvin Benton..has purchased..893 lbs. of Merino and half blood wool for the Boston market.

1854 Michigan Farmer Sept. 262/1 He had just sheared his flock, and some of his half-blood fleeces weighed seven pounds each.

1920 Merchandise Misbranding Bills: Hearing before Comm. Interstate & Foreign Commerce (66th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 193 A wool dealer would grade it as half-blood wool on the fineness of the fiber, without reference to the kind of sheep.

1952 Chronicle (Adelaide) 22 May 2/2 Pieces containing medium or half-blood wools dye about 30 p.c. darker than fine wools when dyed under identical conditions.

2002 R. L. Phillips Handbk. Raising Small Numbers Sheep (ed. 3) 54/1 Half-blood wool would be produced by a crossbred animal with half of its genetic makeup coming from Merino.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).

单词	half-blood
释义	half-bloodn.adj. Brit. /ˈhɑːfblʌd/, U.S. /ˈhæfˌbləd/ Forms: see half adj. and blood n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: half adj., blood n. Etymology: < half adj. + blood n.Compare Anglo-Norman demi sanc (a1321). A. n. 1. The state or fact of having one parent in common with another person; the relationship between people having one parent in common. Usually in of (also by) (the) half blood: by inheritance or descent from one parent only; (formerly also occasionally) †having parents of different races or nationalities; of mixed descent (obsolete). Cf. of the full blood at full-blood n. 1, of the whole blood at whole blood n. 1a. Now somewhat dated.Formerly (esp. in legal contexts) occasionally also denoting a relationship between people with one common (recent) ancestor, e.g. a grandparent. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > [noun] > having one parent in common > relationship of half-blood1553 1445–6 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1445 §26. m. 9 No maner Walssh man of hole blode, ne half blode on the fader side..be made denisen or Englissh. ?1535 C. St. German Answere Let. vi. sig. E.vi^v The grounde of the lawe is, that one of the halfe blode shall neuer be heyre to him that he is but of y^e half blode vnto. 1553 Lett. Patent Edw. VI 16 June in Chron. Queen Jane & Queen Mary (1850) 93 For that the said Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth be unto us but of the halfe bloud. 1609 T. Egerton Speech Lord Chancellor (new ed.) 36 No respect of Halfe Blood. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xx. 129 What, is a brother by the half bloud no kinne? 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. viii. 43 The distinction..between those of the whole, and those of the half Blood of Athens. 1729 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 273 Besides..she was but Sister by the Half Blood of K. Edward VI and so could not Inherit as Heir to him. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xiv. 227 He is only his brother of the half blood, and for that reason they shall never inherit to each other. 1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 147 That rich oriental olive which distinguishes the haughty offspring of the half blood of French or Spaniards. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law x. 64 The brother of the half-blood, on the part of the father, will inherit next after the sisters of the whole blood on the part of the father and their issue. 1922 Daily Herald (Adelaide) 19 Oct. 5/4 He directed..that none of his relatives by half-blood should attend his funeral. 1969 Ontario Rep. II. 882 One nephew and one of the two nieces of the full-blood now appeal seeking to exclude those of the half-blood from taking under the residuary clause. 1994 M. M. Mahoney Stepfamilies & Law iii. 59 C-1 and C-3 are siblings of the half blood, because they had different fathers. 2. A person related to another through having one parent in common. Also: (with the and plural agreement) such people considered collectively. Cf. whole blood n. 1b. Now somewhat dated.Formerly (esp. in legal contexts) occasionally also denoting people with one common (recent) ancestor, e.g. a grandparent; see e.g. quot. 1875. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] > relative by half-blood of (the) half blood1697 half-blood1848 1590 Reasons for Gen. Registry Marriages (BL MS Lansdowne 64/30) f. 82 The entrance of the baptismes as it shalbe prouided for wilbe clere deciphoringe of all halfe Bluddes. 1698 B. Shower Cases Parl. 109 The half Blood are in equal degree of Kindred with the whole Blood, and ought to have an equal Share of the Personal Estate. 1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 942/1 A competition between the full blood and the half blood. 1785 P. Lovelass Will which Law Makes i. 4 The half blood is admitted to the administration as well as the whole. 1809 T. Day Rep. Supreme Court Errors Connecticut 2 116 The half blood were held to be entitled, under the old statute, to share equally with the whole blood in the inheritance of their common ancestor. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. x. 341 By the change effected by the Inheritance Act, the half-blood, if descended from a common male ancestor, is to take next after any relation in the same degree of the whole blood. 1916 Northwestern Reporter 154 67/1 By the common law the half bloods were never permitted to inherit. 2005 P. Wendel Wills, Trusts, & Estates ii. 33 The majority of the American jurisdictions have abolished the old common law rule and treat half-bloods the same as whole bloods. 3. a. An animal having one pure-bred parent; an animal of mixed breed. Also (in of (the) half-blood): †the state or condition of having one pure-bred parent; cf. sense A. 1 (obsolete). Π 1778 A. Wight Present State Husbandry in Scotl. II. 460 I next surveyed the year-olds. Those of half blood and those of the original stock..were all fed on the same pasture. 1791 C. Hamilton in tr. Hedàya II. ix. iv. 175 (note) A heavy draft horse... A first blood... A packhorse... An half blood. 1868 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 11 417 Nothing could be more irrational than to take animals of the half blood as regenerators to ameliorate a race. 1892 E. A. Carman et al. Special Rep. Hist. & Present Condition Sheep Industry U.S. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) i. i. 81 A ram lamb 1 year old, a half blood, gave 23 pounds the quarter well furnished with rough fat. 1903 Science 6 Mar. 386/1 The breed selected for crossing was the Polled Angus, and the half-bloods resembled these more than they did the buffalo, being black, of the same build, and often hornless. 2011 R. Mikesell & M. Baker Animal Sci. Biol. & Technol. (ed. 3) ix. 171 This involved breeding purebred bulls to crossbred (or purebreds of another breed) cows and registering the progeny or offspring as half-bloods. b. Chiefly U.S. Wool derived from cross-bred sheep having one Merino parent, or (more generally) wool of a relatively fine grade characteristic of such sheep. Cf. sense B. 3b. Π 1807 Lit. Mag. & Amer. Reg. Sept. 125/1 This wool was worth at least 8s., though sold at 5s., the rate at which the half blood sold. 1944 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 27 Oct. 14/2 Fleeces as fine as half blood are rarely found in ram lambs at the time of culling. 2021 Times of India (Nexis) 1 Mar. The wool from cross-bred sheep is called ‘half-blood’, is coarser and does not command the high value that fine grade does. 4. Originally and chiefly North American. A person of mixed ancestry, origin, or descent; esp. one having parents or ancestors of different ethnicities or nationalities. Often with reference to a person of mixed North American Indian and white European descent. Now chiefly historical (and likely to be offensive).See note at sense B. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person mongrel1542 of (the) half blood1697 half-caste1758 half-breed1760 lip-lap1798 quarter-breed1821 half-blood1826 half-and-half1827 quarter-blood1827 quarter-caste1859 mixed blooda1862 brown1862 miscegen1864 yellowbelly1867 breed1870 redbone1890 miscegenate1898 high yellow1910 samba1958 lightie1991 1824 W. N. Blane Excursion through U.S. & Canada xxiii. 408 As the white men occasionally form a very intimate acquaintance with the Squaws, a race of what the Americans call half-bloods is the consequence. 1836 S. Parker Jrnl. Tour beyond Rocky Mts. 14 Apr. (1838) xx. 264 A half-blood, named Baptiste,..took the stern. 1915 Manitoba Free Press 14 Aug. 11/6 The statures of Indians and half-bloods show differences in favor of the half-bloods. 1959 E. Webb Mark of Sun 112 Anyone with twenty-five per cent of aboriginal blood in him is legally classified as a half-blood under Queensland law. 1973 Mt. Vernon (Illinois) Reg.-News 10 Dec. 4 a/2 (caption) Half bloods—Born of wartime encounters between American GIs and Korean women. 2005 W. Marder Indians in Americas v. 81 The main damage was from the attitudes and customs the half-bloods acquired from their white parents. B. adj. 1. Of mixed ancestry, origin, or descent; esp. having parents or ancestors of different ethnicities or nationalities. Often with reference to a person of mixed North American Indian and white European descent. Cf. half-blooded adj. 2a. Now somewhat dated and in most contexts potentially offensive.The word is now probably most familiar from its use in J. K. Rowling's 2005 novel Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and the 2009 film of the same name, in which it referred to a character's mixed parentage as the offspring of a witch and a Muggle. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person mongrel1566 mulatto-like1719 half-breeda1762 mixed breed1775 half-caste1789 half-blood1830 three-quarter-bred1902 quarter-caste1952 biracial1963 multiracial1964 1684 Mr. Amhurst tr. Marcus Crassus in J. Dryden tr. Plutarch Lives III. 650 The first that met him were two half blood Greecians. 1830 in Wisconsin State Hist. Soc. Coll. (1892) XII. 185 He is a half Blood St. Regis, with a half Blood Menomonie wife. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxi. 406 A handsome half-blood daughter married to a white man. 1927 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 9 Feb. 6/1 Indian half-blood girls are much more likely to marry white men than Indian men are likely to marry white women. 1952 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Mar. 15/4 I remarked to Townie, a half-blood aboriginal yardman, that he, no doubt, didn't feel the heat. 2014 New Scientist 8 Feb. 28/1 You might have two grandparents who are half blood. 2. Related to another person by one parent only; having one parent in common. Also: defined or characterized by this relationship. Now somewhat dated.Formerly (esp. in legal contexts) occasionally also designating (the relationship between) people with one common (recent) ancestor, e.g. a grandparent. Π 1714 A. Bruce Tutor's Guide ii. iii. 242 Tho that half Blood Relation have been given Dative in Exchequer. 1816 Carolina Law Repository Sept. 593 If the half blood brother of the line of the first purchaser is permitted to exclude the brother who is not of that line. 1861 Rep. High Court Mississippi 38 148 If it has no other heirs, the uncle inherits by his half-blood position. 1882 A. Macfarlane Consanguinity 17 Aunt, half-blood..Brother, half-blood. 1941 Yale Law Jrnl. 50 1094 Alleging that the decree had been fraudulently procured by the full blood heirs, the half blood heirs brought an action in the Oklahoma court to set it aside. 2015 Croydon Advertiser (Nexis) 13 Aug. 5 Mr Fraser's grandparents appear to have married just the once and therefore it is believed no half-blood relatives exist. 3. a. Of an animal: having one pure-bred parent; of mixed breed. ΘΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > cross-breeding or hybridization bigenerous1610 hybridan1623 mongrel1633 hybridous1691 mule1728 hybrid1775 cross-bred1856 hybridizablea1864 paragenesic1864 hybridized1872 cross1886 monohybrid1903 outbred1903 intergeneric1921 polyhybrid1922 reticulate1938 trihybrid1941 inter-strain1950 the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > of livestock > kept for breeding > ill-bred bastarda1398 half-bred1701 scrub1744 cross-bred1856 underbred1890 1764 Maryland Gaz. 8 Mar. On the second Thursday in May next, will be Run for, on the Race-Ground adjoining to said Town [sc. Chester], a Purse of Thirty Pistoles, free for any Horse, Mare, or Gelding, not more than half Blood. 1770 C. Varlo New Syst. Husbandry III. xxvii. 327 This is a good time to give your mares to the stallion; make use of such a one as is broad and strong, short-jointed, moves light, and goes true on his legs, what is called half-blood. 1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 52 I have slaughtered two half-blood heifers, which have weighed at four years old over 700 lbs. 1978 Horseman Apr. 80/2 A cheap alternative to purebred prices may be the primary reason buyers select half-blood horses. 2018 Tel. Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) (Nexis) 8 Mar. a5 We had a herd of 22 full-blood and three half-blood females. b. Chiefly U.S. Designating wool derived from cross-bred sheep having one Merino parent, or (more generally) a relatively fine grade of wool characteristic of such sheep. Cf. sense A. 3b. Π 1828 Trumpet & Universalist Mag. 30 Aug. 35 Calvin Benton..has purchased..893 lbs. of Merino and half blood wool for the Boston market. 1854 Michigan Farmer Sept. 262/1 He had just sheared his flock, and some of his half-blood fleeces weighed seven pounds each. 1920 Merchandise Misbranding Bills: Hearing before Comm. Interstate & Foreign Commerce (66th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 193 A wool dealer would grade it as half-blood wool on the fineness of the fiber, without reference to the kind of sheep. 1952 Chronicle (Adelaide) 22 May 2/2 Pieces containing medium or half-blood wools dye about 30 p.c. darker than fine wools when dyed under identical conditions. 2002 R. L. Phillips Handbk. Raising Small Numbers Sheep (ed. 3) 54/1 Half-blood wool would be produced by a crossbred animal with half of its genetic makeup coming from Merino. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < n.adj.1445
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