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noun
Half blood  n.  
1.
The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4.
2.
A person so related to another.
3.
A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed. Note: In the 2d and 3d senses usually with a hyphen.





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"Half blood" Quotes from Famous Books



... the first Blood was receiv'd in a Porringer, and within a little while it turn'd very white; the last Blood was received in a Sawcer, which turn'd white immediately, like the white of a Custard. Within five or six hours after, he (the Physitian) chanced to see both, and that in the Porringer was half Blood and half Chyle, swimming upon it like a Serum as white as Milk, and that in the Sawcer all Chyle without the least appearance of a drop of Blood; and when he heated them distinctly over a gentle fire, they both harden'd: As the white of an Egge when 'tis heated, or just ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various
... ruins, where he will encounter the black, the half blood, and the Indian. It is there they have appointed to meet the Malay, who tattooed the ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... kindly, the dogman took his fingers off their numeral scale, and looked at her. By nature the two were first cousins, of half blood; by law and custom, and education, and vital institution, they were sundered more widely than black and white. But, for all that, the dogman loved the lady, at a ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore
... you this," cried Lawrence, "in the name of our mother, for you and I, Victor Broussard, are brothers of the half blood." ...
— Betty at Fort Blizzard • Molly Elliot Seawell


Words linked to "Half blood" :   sib, sibling


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