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Halfen vs Halfe - What's the difference?

halfen | halfe |

As an adjective halfen

is (obsolete) lacking half of its due qualities.

As a noun halfe is

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As an adverb halfe is

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halfen

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (obsolete) Lacking half of its due qualities.
    • (Spencer)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    halfe

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1658, author=Anonymous, given as "W. M.", title=The Compleat Cook, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=
  • * {{quote-news, year=2004, date=June 4, author=Harold Henderson, title=The Consumer Revolution, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=In 1721 in Berwick, Maine, peddler William Moore sold Daniel Goodwin "a yard and a halfe of Stuff for handcarchiefs,"

    Adverb

    (-)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Frighted with this confused noyse, I rose, And looking from a turret, might behold Yong infants swimming in their parents bloud, Headles carkasses piled vp in heapes, Virgins halfe dead dragged by their golden haire,