halfendeal

English

Etymology

From Old English healfan dǣl, accusative form of healfa dǣl (“half part”).

Noun

halfendeal (plural not attested)

1. (archaic) A half.

Adverb

halfendeal (comparative more halfendeal, superlative most halfendeal)

1. (obsolete) Half.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     now the humid night was farforth spent, / And heauenly lampes were halfendeale ybrent [...].