halfendeal

halfendeal

English

Etymology

Old English healfan dǣl, accusative form of healfa dǣl (“half part”).

Noun

halfendeal (plural halfendeals)

1. (archaic) A half.

Adverb

halfendeal (comparative more halfendeal, superlative most halfendeal)

1. (obsolete) Half.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:

     now the humid night was farforth spent, / And heauenly lampes were halfendeale ybrent [...].