| 单词 | of half-blood | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasof (the) half-blood  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. < as lemmas | 
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