ˈhalfendeal, ˈhalven-, n., a., and adv. Obs. exc. dial.
In 1 healfan dǽl, 3–6 halfen-, halven-del(e, 4 helven-, helvyndel, 4–5 halvendell, 5 halfon-, -un-, halvundel(e, -dell(e, 5–6 halfendell, 5–7 halfyndele, 6–7 halfendeale. β. 4 -dole, 5 -doole. γ. 4–6 -dale.
[OE. þone healfan dǽl, accus case of se healfa dǽl, the half part (see half-deal, deal n.1, dole n.1), occurring after verbs of giving and the like, and mechanically retained after the sense of the inflexion was lost.]
A. n. ‘Half part’; a half, a moiety.
| c 1000 Apollonius of Tyre (1834) 12 He..sealde apolloniᵹe þone healfen dæl. c 1205 Lay. 7093 He hehte..Þat he dælde his æhte a twam, And nom þa hæluen dale [c 1275 halfendele]. 1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 5 Ac Schropschire naþ haluendel to þilke bischopriche i wis. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10919 He parted his host in haluendel. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 3253 Þat haluendol þan diȝte he wiþ-inne forþ to stonde. c 1400 Rom. Rose 2364 That in oo place thou sette, alle hoole, Thyn herte, withoute halfen doole. c 1425 Craft Nombrynge 14 Þou schalt doubul þat merke þe quych stondes for haluendel on, for too haluedels makes on. 1488–9 Act 4 Hen. VII, c. 19 The same halvendele of thissues and profites. 1536 in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. xxxv. 274 That the king's highness may have the moyety and halfendale of the dividends. a 1656 Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 212 When they had ridd away the halfendeale and dearest part, every man of himself, out of danger. 1888 Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. s.v., I let'n had a full halfen deal, same's off we was to share and share alike. |
† B. adj. Half. Obs.
| a 1300 Fragm. Pop. Sc. (Wright) 22 Evene helven-del than appel heo wolde ȝyve hire liȝt. c 1330 King of Tars 783 Yit haluendel the child were thyn. a 1440 Sir Degrev. 812 He passed never out on the playn Halvendel a myle. c 1440 Gesta Rom. xc. 414 (Add. MS.) The porter..to whome I graunted halfyndele my mede. |
† C. adv. Half, by half. Obs.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden i. v. (Rolls) 45 The brede..[is] wel nyh haluendel lasse þan þe lengþe. c 1400 Gamelyn 272, I have nought yet halvendel sold up my ware. 1590 Spenser F.Q. iii. ix. 53 Lampes..halfendeale ybrent. |