the space of six months; one term of a school when there are two terms in a year.- Mrs. Browning.
See also: Half
Half year
HALF YEAR, In the computation of time, a half year consists of one hundred and eighty-two days. Co. Litt. 135 b; Rev. Stat., of N. Y. part 1, c. 19, t. 1. Sec. 3.