halfe
Speech parts
1. halfe - Noun
2. halfe - Adverb
Meaning
halfe
Archaic spelling of half.
halfe (not comparable)
Archaic spelling of half.
Examples
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
16 Proposition. The 42. moneths, 1260 propheticall daies, three great daies and a halfe: And a time, times and halfe a time, signifieth everie one of them, 1260 Julliane yeares.
15 Proposition. The 42. moneths, a thousand two hundred and three score propheticall daies, three greate daies and a halfe, and a time, times, and a halfe a time mentioned in Daniel, & in the Revelation, are all one date.
The term "couplet" was first used to describe successive lines of verse in Sir P. Sidney's Arcadia in 1590: "In singing some short coplets, whereto the one halfe beginning, the other halfe should answere."