The Collaborative International Dictionary
Half \Half\ (h[aum]f), n.; pl. Halves (h[aum]vz). [AS. healf. See Half, a.]
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Part; side; behalf. [Obs.]
--Wyclif.The four halves of the house.
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One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple.
Not half his riches known, and yet despised.
--Milton.A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between us.
--Tennyson.Better half. See under Better.
In half, in two; an expression sometimes used improperly instead of in halves or into halves; as, to cut in half. [Colloq.]
--Dickens.In one's half or On one's half, in one's behalf; on one's part. [Obs.]
To cry halves, to claim an equal share with another.
To go halves, to share equally between two.
Usage examples of "into halves".
You have ten fingers, which is a fine number: it lends itself to math, since it is an even number and can be divided into halves, fifths, and tenths.
So when he reached the waiting oak he wedged the model into an informal vise and took down his saw, but when he started to make his cut he saw that to do it properly he must rip the backbone into halves, and this he was powerless to do.
There, seemingly floating above the stand, were the glowing folds of his cerebral cortex, the cerebellum and medulla and the vivid chasm splitting the brain into halves.
How, at the beginning of time, human beings were split in two, by a malevolent god, into halves—.
How, at the beginning of time, human beings were split in two, by a malevolent god, into halves&mdash.
In the center of the circle a red-lacquered wooden stand held a disc as big as a man's hand, divided into halves by a sinuous line, one side gleaming whiter than snow, the other blacker than pitch.
Then something drove itself into the center of my brain, splitting me into halves.
The blade slid right through the back of its head-body, slitting it into halves.
With one smart chop he split the slave's head and face into halves.