Word Meanings - HALVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A half. Chaucer.

BISECTION
Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.
HALVED
Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.
INTIMIDATE
To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;
BISECTRIX
The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.
BISECT
To divide into two equal parts. (more info) Etym: 1. To cut or divide into two parts.
BISECTOR
One who, or that which, bisects; esp. a straight line which bisects an angle.
HALVES
pl. of Half. By halves, by one half at once; halfway; fragmentarily; partially; incompletely. I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or I have it not. J. H. Newman. To go halves. See under Go.
HALVE
A half. Chaucer.