half-brother
[In ME. from c 1300; cf. Ger. halbbruder, ON. halfbróðir.]
A brother by one parent only, a brother of the half-blood.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 121 Roberd went hir with, Malde's half broþer. c 1475 Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 690/13 Hic germanus, a halfebrodyre. 1641 Termes de la Ley 108 They are termed halfe brothers, or brothers of the halfe bloud. 1715–20 Pope Iliad xiv. 265 And seeks the cave of Death's half-brother, Sleep. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 224 He is my half brother, the son of my mother, but not of my father. |