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ˈhalf-blood
1. The relation between persons having only one parent in common.
1553Lett. Patent Edw. VI, 16 June in Chron. Q. Jane etc. (1850) 93 For that the said Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth be unto us but of the halfe bloud. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xx. 129 What, is a brother by the half bloud no kinne? 1767Blackstone Comm. II. xiv. 227 He is only his brother of the half blood, and for that reason they shall never inherit to each other. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy-bk. Prop. Law x. 64 The brother of the half-blood, on the part of the father, will inherit next after the sisters of the whole blood on the part of the father and their issue.
attrib.1882A. Macfarlane Consanguin. 17 Aunt, half-blood..Brother, half-blood.
2. A person or group of persons related in this way.
1848Wharton Law Lex., Half-blood, one not born of the same father and mother. 1876Digby Real Prop. x. §2 (1). 388 By the change effected by the Inheritance Act, the half-blood, if descended from a common male ancestor, is to take next after any relation in the same degree of the whole blood.
3. One whose descent is only half derived from the blood of a particular race; a half-breed.
1826H. N. Coleridge West Indies 147 That rich oriental olive which distinguishes the haughty offspring of the half blood of French or Spaniards.
4. attrib. Half-blooded.
1830in Wisconsin State Hist. Soc. Coll. (1892) XII. 185 He is a half Blood St. Regis, with a half Blood Menomonie wife. 1835C. F. Hoffman Winter in West I. 215 The driver was also accompanied on the box by a well made young half-blood Chippeway. 1837H. Colman Rep. Agric. Mass. (1838) 52, I have slaughtered two half-blood heifers, which have weighed at four years old over 700 lbs. 1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West xxi. 406 A handsome half-blood daughter married to a white man. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 4 Dec. 12/6 A further sprinkling of transactions is noted in fine and half-blood wool.
Hence half-blooded a., born of different races; spec. of superior blood or race by one parent only.
1605Shakes. Lear v. iii. 80 Alb. The let alone lies not in your good will. Bast. Nor in thine Lord. Alb. Halfe-blooded fellow, yes. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan III. 375 A half-blooded Indian, of the great Mohawk breed. |