The Collaborative International Dictionary
Half-breed \Half"-breed`\ (-br[=e]d`), a. Half-blooded.
Half-breed \Half"-breed`\, n. A person who is half-blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person of mixed race," 1760; as an adjective by 1762. Half-blooded in this sense is from c.1600.
Wiktionary
a. (context of an animal English) having one purebred parent; hybrid n. (context derogatory English) A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage.
WordNet
adj. (of animals) having only one purebred parent [syn: half-blooded, half-bred]
n. half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents) [syn: breed]
Wikipedia
Half-Breed may refer to:
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Half-Breed (album), a 1973 album by singer/actress Cher
- "Half-Breed" (song), the title track from the album
- "Half-Breed" (short story), a science fiction story by Isaac Asimov
- Halfbreed (album), a 1968 album by the Keef Hartley Band
- Half Breed (film), a 1913 Swedish film
- The Half-Breed, a 1952 American film starring Robert Young
- Half-Breed (politics), member of the moderate wing of the United States Republican Party in the late 19th century
- Halfbreed Billy Gram, American professional wrestler and entertainer
"Half-Breed" is a 1973 song recorded by American singer-actress Cher with instrumental backing by L.A. sessions musicians from the Wrecking Crew. Recorded May 21,1973 at Larrabee Sound in Los Angeles, it entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 89 on August 4, 1973, and on October 6, 1973, it became Cher's second U.S. solo #1 hit. The single was certified Gold in the US for the sales of over 1 million copies.
Half-Breed is the tenth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on October 27, 1973 by MCA. For the production of the album Cher returned with Snuff Garrett and Al Capps. Half-Breed was the second record for MCA and also promoted on her successful The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour show. After its release, the album faced mixed reviews from critics, and the RIAA certified it Gold on March 4, 1974. The album was her second solo album to receive a certification by RIAA.
"Half-Breed" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the February 1940 issue of Astonishing Stories and reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov. It was the fifteenth story written by Asimov, and the fourth to be published. At 9000 words, it was his longest published story to date.
"Half-Breed" was written in June 1939, and submitted to (and subsequently rejected by) Amazing Stories and Astounding Science Fiction before being accepted by Frederik Pohl in October for his new magazine Astonishing Stories.
Asimov wrote a sequel to the story called " Half-Breeds on Venus".
The "Half-Breeds" were a political faction of the United States Republican Party in the late 19th century. The Half-Breeds were a moderate-wing group, and were the opponents of the Stalwarts, the other main faction of the Republican Party. The main issue that divided the Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds was political patronage. The Stalwarts were in favor of political machines and spoils system-style patronage, while the Half-Breeds, led by Maine senator James G. Blaine, were in favor of civil service reform and a merit system. The epithet "Half-Breed" was invented in derision by the Stalwarts to denote those whom they perceived as being only half Republican.
In the 1880 Republican National Convention, the Stalwart candidate, former president Ulysses S. Grant, was pitted against Half-Breed James G. Blaine for the party nomination. Grant's campaign was led by Stalwart leader Roscoe Conkling of New York, the state with the biggest split between Stalwarts and Half-Breeds. Despite Conkling's attempts at imposing a unit-rule in the Republican National Convention by which a state's votes would be grouped together for only one candidate, a number of Stalwarts went against him by vocalizing their support for the Half-Breed Blaine. The Half-Breeds united to defeat the unit-rule in a vote, and elected Half-Breed George Frisbie Hoar to the position as temporary chairman of the convention.
Both sides knew there was no chance of victory for either candidate, and the Half-Breeds chose James Garfield as a compromise candidate. Garfield won the party's nomination on the thirty-sixth ballot, and won the 1880 presidential election. Blaine was chosen as Garfield's Secretary of State, and carried heavy influence over the political appointments Garfield issued for congressional approval. After Garfield was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau, a Stalwart, who proclaimed, "I am a Stalwart of the Stalwarts and Arthur will be President", the new Stalwart president Chester A. Arthur surprised those in his own faction by promoting civil service reform and issuing government jobs based on a merit system.
The Half-Breeds put through Congress the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (authored by Democrat George H. Pendleton), and Arthur signed the bill into law on January 16, 1883. The act put an end to the spoils system, at least symbolically, placing a significant number of federal employees under the merit system and putting the government on the road to true reform. The act also set up the United States Civil Service Commission, banished political tests, denied jobs to alcoholics and created competitive measures for some federal positions.
The Half-Breed and Stalwart factions both dissociated towards the end of the 1880s.
Usage examples of "half-breed".
Though the steel trap is much in vogue among white men and half-breeds, the deadfall, even to this day, is much preferred by the Indian.
Yes, it was so, and John Fontanelle, the half-breed, could tell you about it any day -- if he were alive.
On the last evening he seems to have hid himself near the hut in which we were discussing our plans, and, being observed by our huge Negro Zambo, who is as faithful as a dog and has the hatred which all his race bear to the half-breeds, he was dragged out and carried into our presence.
Her Myrna Loy allele might hide a matched half that codes for Irish pug: a half-breed, heterozygous.
It is Marchand LaValois who seeks to crush any opposition to his self-serving rules by sending his monstrous half-breed daughter out to slay his opposers while they sleep!
Marigoth was slightly shocked to hear him use the ugly term half-breed for melded folk, but perhaps it was different here in Ermora.
The animals were gone, and cursing the half-breed at every step, he rushed to the street, and catching up the reins of a big roan that stood in a group of horses, swung into the saddle and headed out onto the trail.
The third rider, Bob Sheephead, a half-breed, drifted his horse closer to the other two.
The half-breed Bob Sheephead sauntered over to where Hobie Evans was repairing a weak cinch strap.
How, coming unexpectedly on them in their Arcadia, the party found them unpresentable through dirt, and thenceforth unknowable through domestic complications that had filled their Arcadian cabin with half-breed children.
We here saw two hunters who were Chipewyan half-breeds, and made many inquiries of them respecting the countries we expected to visit, but we found them quite ignorant of every part beyond the Athabasca Lake.
Fort Edward, David Jones sent a party of Indians, under Duluth, a half-breed, to escort his betrothed to the British camp, where they were to be married at once by Chaplain Brudenell, Lady Harriet Acland and Madame Riedesel, wife of General Riedesel, in command of the Brunswick contingent, having consented to be present at the wedding.
Almost at the same moment that we had Fenian troubles at home, and threatened invasions of our Quebec and Ontario frontiers, the standard of revolt had been raised in Manitoba by the turbulent rebel Louis Riel and his band of half-breeds.
Overcoming his aversion to handling the thing, he went down to the river mouth and threw it into the sea-water, but by some miracle it escaped the crocodiles, and was cast up by the tide on the mud a little way up the river, to be found by an intelligent Arab half-breed, and offered for sale to Pollock and Perea as a curiosity, just on the edge of night.
CALL A fortnight later Marais, Pereira and their companions, a little band in all of about twenty men, thirty women and children, and say fifty half-breeds and Hottentot after-riders, trekked from their homes into the wilderness.