halfe

Archaic spelling of half.

Adverb

  1. Archaic spelling of half.
    • Frighted with this confused noyse, I rose, And looking from a turret, might behold Yong infants swimming in their parents bloud, Headles carkasses piled vp in heapes, Virgins halfe dead dragged by their golden haire,...

Noun

  1. Archaic spelling of half.
    • […] take a pint of Hippocras, halfe a pound of sweet butter, two or three Nutmeg, little Vinegar, poure it into the Pye in the Oven and let it lye and soake an hour, then take it out, and when it is cold stop the vent...
    • In 1721 in Berwick, Maine, peddler William Moore sold Daniel Goodwin "a yard and a halfe of Stuff for handcarchiefs," [… - 2004 June 4, Harold Henderson, “The Consumer Revolution”, in Chicago Reader: