| 单词 | the half | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto the half Π a1400    tr.  Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie 		(Ashm.)	 		(1894)	 233 (MED)  				Þis þou schalt boile in a quart of wyn of paris til it come to þe half [L. ad medium]. a1500						 (?a1425)						    tr.  Secreta Secret. 		(Lamb.)	 84 (MED)  				And all þese þynges be puttyd yn a vessell, so þat it be to þe half. 1559    P. Morwyng tr.  C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 366  				Sum put hoat ashes..in a vessell of wood, filling it to the half. to (the) half ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > incompletely or partly			[phrase]		 in partc1300 a (also in, of) party1372 to (the) half1547 by halves1563 by fractions1796 a1645    W. Browne tr.  M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander 		(1647)	  ii. iii. 222  				I see but at halfes [Fr. à demy]. a1645    W. Browne tr.  M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander 		(1647)	  ii. iii. 240  				To be reveng'd at halfes [Fr. à demy]. a1673    J. Caryl in  C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David 		(1870)	 I. Ps. vi. 8  				They do it not to halves, but thoroughly. 1682    J. Bunyan Holy War 115  				Nor did I do this to the halves .       View more context for this quotation 1739    ‘R. Bull’ tr.  F. Dedekind Grobianus  i. ii. 17  				Nor belch to Halves—but of the Clangor proud, Like some substantial Burgo-master, belch aloud. 1793    S. Hopkins Syst. of Doctr. I.  i. iv. 223  				It is doubtless better..not to preach it at all, than to do it to the halves. < as lemmas  | 
	
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