Fill the halves with the mixture; sprinkle with bread-crumbs and bits of butter.

One of these curved halves had been mounted on four ivory legs.

"There isn't a drop of syrup left," said Potts, who had drained the can, and even wiped it out carefully with halves of hot biscuit.

Really, Jack, both our better-halves are horribly commonplace and they will be much better off without us.

It's because we differ much, and so fit together like opposite halves of an apple....

"Why, (said the King,) they seldom do these things by halves."

do thoroughly, not do by halves, go the whole hog; drive home; be in at the death &c (persevere) 604.1; carry through, play out, exhaust; fill the bill

V. not complete &c 729; leave unfinished &c adj., leave undone, drop, put down; neglect &c 460; let alone, let slip; lose sight of (forget) 506. fall short of &c 304; do things by halves, parboil, scotch the snake not lull it; hang fire; be slow to; collapse &c 304. drop out.

V. fail; be unsuccessful &c adj.; not succeed &c 731; make vain efforts &c n.; do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk [U.S.]; lose one's labor, take nothing by one's motion; bring to naught, make nothing of; wash a blackamoor white &c (impossible) 471; roll the stones of Sisyphus &c (useless) 645; do by halves &c (not complete) 730; lose ground &c (recede) 282; fall short of &c 304.

Lee was approaching rapidly, to unite the two halves of his army.

This makes two vertical ranks, or rows, of leaves, dividing the circle into halves.

If a leaf-stalk of Nasturtium be slit vertically for an inch or two, the two halves will spring back abruptly.

D.O.] [Footnote 7: This gate was on the west side, in the rear, farthest from the enemy: it was so called from the decumanus, a line drawn from east to west, which divided the camp into two halves: see note in revised edition of Prendeville's Livy.]

Again, in Henry's departmentfor the office was cut into two halves, with about ten clerks in each, the partners having, of course, their own private offices, from which they might dart out at any momentthere was a certain little fussy chief clerk who was obviously a person of very mysterious importance.

If you'll jest keep that up and go halves, fair and reg'lar, you're welcome.

This was the origin of the proverb which described a cheat as "a dealer in goat by halves.

40 Halves, more than halves! cried honest Care; Your pleas would make your titles fair, You claim the body, you the soul, But I who join'd them, claim the whole.

40 Halves, more than halves! cried honest Care; Your pleas would make your titles fair, You claim the body, you the soul, But I who join'd them, claim the whole.

"If he be a trencher chaplain in a gentleman's house (as it befel Euphormio), after some seven years' service he may perchance have a living to {27} the halves, or some small rectory, with the mother of the maids at length, a poor kinswoman, or a crackt chambermaid, to have and to hold during the time of his life.

The phrase "To the halves" (in the quotation from Burton) means, inadequate, insufficient; we still talk of "half and half" measures.

Montanus inveighs against such "perturbations, that purge to the halves, tire nature, and molest the body to no purpose.

Did you not receive money, to give such a character of this ship to the ladies as (you said yourself) would make them sooner pass the night in a churchyard, than trust foot on board her?" "Something of the sort passed between us, Captain; but you forgot one half of the conditions, and I overlooked the other; and I need not tell so expert a navigator, that two halves make a whole.

Hark ye, old Bill; the devil never finishes his jobs by halves: What is to happen will happen bodily; and no easing-off, as if you were lowering the Captain's lady into a boat, and he on deck to see fair play.

A line drawn from the floor service line to the backwall divides the back court into two equal halves.

Another point was most weird to see, that on the under side of this very dirty piece of sea ice, which was about two feet thick and which hung over the water as a sort of cave, we could see the legs and lower halves of dead Emperor chicks hanging through, and even in one place a dead adult.