half-brothern.
A brother by one parent only, a brother of the half-blood.
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half-brotherc1330
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 121 Roberd went hir with, Malde's half broþer.
c1475 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 690/13 Hic germanus, a halfebrodyre.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 108, They are termed halfe brothers, or brothers of the halfe bloud.
1718 Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiv. 265 And seeks the Cave of Death's half-Brother, Sleep.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 213 He is my half brother, the son of my mother, but not of my father.
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- to the point
- to the point device
- to the point where
- to the power five
- to the power of five
- to the prejudice of
- to the prick
- to the proof
- to the punch
- to the purpose
- to the queen's taste
- to the quick
- to the rafters
- to the rate
- to the recover
- to the rescue
- to the respect of
- to the rest
- to the right
- to the right about
- to the rights
- to the rightward
- to the rightward of
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