Power and Providence of God, in the Gover a ment of the World." fol. 1639. He died a Heanton in 1649. (2.) HAKEWILL, William, elder brother to George, (N° 1.) was educated at Exeter college; whence he removed to Lincoln's Inn, and became eminent in the law. He was a puritan, and had great intereft with the republican party during the civil war. He wrote feveral tracts; particularly " The liberty of the fubject against the pretended power of impofitions:" 1641. 4to. HAKING, a town of Auftria, 6 miles W. of Vienna. HAKLOFEN, a town of Bohemia. of a delicate purple; all thefe leaves together have HAKLUYT, Richard, a naval hiftorian, fuppo fed to have been born in London about 1533, and defcended of a genteel family in Hereford fhire. He was educated at Westminster, and in 1570, re moved to Oxford; where he applied to the study of cofmography, and read public lectures in that fcience. Sir Edward Stafford being fent ambassador to France in 1583, Mr Hakluyt was one of his attendants. He was at this time M.A. and profeffor of divinity. In 1585, he was made pre bendary of Briftol, during his refidence at Paris. In fearching the French libraries, he found a va luable hiftory of Florida, which he published at his own expenfe, in French, and foon after revi fed and republifhed Peter Martyr's book De orbe novo. After 5 years refidence in France, he re turned to England. In 1589, he published his Collection of Voyages, in one vol. fol. which, in 1598, was republished in three. In 1605, he was made prebendary of Weftminster, which, with the rectory of Wetheringfet, was the fummit of his preferment. He died in 1616. He was a faithful hiftorian. His works, befides thofe above mentioned, are, 1. A Collection of Voyages and Discoveries, a fmall volume. 2. The Discoveries of the World, from the Original to the Year 1555, written in the Portugal tongue by Ant. Galvano; corrected, much amended, and tranf lated into English, by Richard Hakluyt. 3. Virgi-` nia richly valued by the Defcription of the Main Land of Florida, her next Neighbour, &c. written: by a Portugal gentleman of Elvas, and tranflated. by Richard Hakluyt. Befides thefe, he left feve ral MSS, which were printed in Purchas's col lection. T HAL-TCHIN, a town of China, in Fo-kien. HAITETSKULA, a town of Croatia, 14 miles N. of Novi. HAI-YEN, a town of China, in Tche-kiang. HAJKAN, a country of Indoftan, on the W. fide of the Sinde, between Mecran and Moultan. (1.) HAKE. n. A kind of fish. The coaft is ftored with mackerel and bake. Carew. (2.) HAKE, is the English name of a fish common in the British fea, called by fome Zoologifts, MERLUCIUS and LUCLUS MARINUS. Thefe fish were ufed of old dried and falted. Hence the proverb in Kent, As dry as a bake. See GADUS, N6. HAKMAN, a town of Ceylon, 8om. S. of Candi. *HAKOT. n.. [from bake.] A kind of fish. Ainfaworth. HAL, in local names, is derived like al from the Saxon healle, i. e. a hall, a palace. In Gothic bal fignifies a temple, or any other famous building. Gibson's Camden. HAK, George, a learned English Mount Taranta, inhabited by fhepherds. HALAI, a village of Abyffinia, on the top of (1.) divine, the fon of a merchant in Exeter, where he was born in 1579. He was educated at Oxford, became fellow of Exeter college, and was afterwards elected rector of it. He was appointed chaplain to Prince Charles, archdeacon of Surrey, and rector of Heanton; but was never promoted higher, on account of his zealous oppofition to Pr. Charles's marriage with the infanta, of Spain, for which he was imprifoned in 1621. His chief work is, "An Apology or Declaration of the HALBAU, à town of Lufatia. (1.)* HALBERD. n. [halebarde, Fr. balle barde, Dutch, from barde, an axe, and halle, a court, halberds being the common weapons of guards.] A battle-axe fixed to a long pole, Advance thy balberd higher than my breaft. Shak. Our balberds did fhut up his paffage. Shak. Caps Caps on their heads, and halberds in their hand, 1. Drawn forth to combat on the velvet plain. Pope. (2.) HALBERDS, or HALBERTS, are a kind of fpears, carried by the fergeants of foot and dra. goons. The thaft is about 5 feet long, and made of afh or other wood. The head is armed with a fteel point, not unlike the point of a two-edged fword. Befides this fharp point, which is in a line with the shaft, there is a crofs piece of steel, flat and pointed at both ends; but generally with a cutting edge at one extremity, and a bent sharp point at the other; fo that the halbert ferves equally to cut down or to push withal. It is alfo ufeful indetermining the ground between the ranks, and adjusting the files of a battalion. It was anciently a common weapon in the army, where there were companies of halberdiers. It is faid to have been used by the Amazons, and afterwards by the Rhætians and Vindelicians about A. D. 570. It was called the Danish ax, because the Danes bore an halbert on the left fhoulder. From the Danes it came to the Scots, from the Scots to the English Saxons, and from them to the French. *HALBERDIER. x. f. [halebardier, Fr. from halberd.] One who is armed with a halberd,―The duchefs appointed him a guard of 30 halberdiers, in a livery of murrey and blue to attend his perfon. Bacon.-The king had only his halberdiers, and fewer of them than used to go with him. Cla. rendon. When great Auguftus made war's tempeft ceafe, His balcyon days brought forth the arts of peace. Denham. -No man can expect eternal serenity and balcyon days from fo incompetent and partial a caufe, as the conftant courfe of the fun in the equinoctial circle. Bentley. (2.) HALCYON. n. f. [balcyo, Lat.] A bird, of which it is faid that the breeds in the fea, and that there is always a calm during her incubation. Such' fmiling rogues as these footh ev'ry paffion, Bring oil to fire, fnow to their colder moods; (4.) HALCYON DAYS, in antiquity, a name given to feven days before, and as many after the winter folftice; when the halcyon, invited by the calmnefs of the weather, laid her eggs in nefts built in the rocks, clofe by the brink of the fea. Hence the phrafe became proverbial. HALCYZN, a town of Poland, in Braclaw. HALDANE, John, a very eccentric genius of the 18th century, born in Edinburgh about the end of the 17th. He was one of the old Covenanters, commonly called CAMERONIANS, OF CARGIL LITES; (See thefe articles,) and adhered to their principles, both religious and political, in their moft rigid form; of which he gave evidence by publishing various pamphlets in fupport of them. Of these the most remarkable was entitled The active Teftimony of the true Prefbyterians of Scot land, against the late unjust invafion by Charles pretended Prince of Wales, and William pretended Duke of Cumberland, &c. published at Edinburgh, in 1746, 8vo. He died about 1770. (1.) HALBERSTADT, a principality of Germany, in the circle of Lower Saxony, bounded on the NE. by the duchy of Magdeburg, on the S. by the principality of Anhalt, on the W. by the diocefe of Hildesheim, on the E. by the Electorate of Saxony, and on the N. by Wolfenbuttle. It is near 40 miles long and 30 broad. The foil is fertile in corn and flax; and there are fome woods, though fuel is fcarce. There are 3 large towns in it, which fend reprefentatives to the diet; 10 fmall ones; and 91 county towns and villages, The number of the inhabitants is computed at about 200,000 the greateft part of them are Lutherans; but there are alfo Calvinifts, Jews, and Roman Catholics, The manufactures are chiefly woollen, sheep being numerous; the exports are grain, and a kind of beer called broiban. The annual revenue amounts to 500,000 rix-dollars. By the treaty of Weftphalia, in 1648, this country was transferred to the houfe of Brandenburg. ItHALDENSLEBEN, a town of Germany; in Lower Saxony, 12 miles N. of Magdeburg. is entitled to a vote in the diets of the empire and the circle. The chief towns are HALBERSTAD, (N° 2.) Groningen, Ofcherfleben, and Olterwick. (2.) HALBERSTADT, the capital of the above principality, (N° 1.) is feated near the Hotheim. It has a cathedral, 15 churches, and other handfome buildings. It has an inn which is faid to be the largest and to have the best accommodations of any in Europe. In 1179, it was burnt by Henry the Lion. In 1203, it was walled and moated. In 1758, the French demolished its gates, and part of the walls. It lies 30 miles SW, of Magdeburg, and 34 SSE. of Brunswick. Lon. 11. 29. E. Lat. 51. 54. N. HALBERT, or HALBARD. See HALBERD. (1.)* HALCYON. adj. [from the noun.] Placid; quiet; ftill; peaceful,→ HALDE, John Baptift Du, a learned French Jefuit, born at Paris in 1674. He was well verfed in Afiatic geography, and compiled a work entitled Grand defeription de la Chine & de la Tortarie, from original memoirs of the Jefuitical miffionaries, in 4 vols folio, He was also concerned in a collection of letters begun by father Gobien, called Des Lettres Edifiantes, in 18 vols; and publifhed fome Latin poems and orations. He died in (r.) HALDENSTEIN, a ci-devant barony of the Grifons, 2 miles N. of Coire, now included in the Helvetic republic; containing a villages and 400 citizens. (2.) HALDENSTEIN, a village of the Helvetic republic, in the above barony. (1.) HALE, Sir Matthew, lord chief juftice of the king's bench in the reign of Charles II. was the fon of Robert Hale, Efq. a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and' was born in 4609. He was educated at Oxford, where he made a confiderable progrefs in learning; but was afterwards diverted from his ftudies by the levities of youth. From these he was reformed by Mr John Glanvil, fergeant at law; and applying to the ftudy of the law, entered into Lincoln's Inn. Noy, the at torney torney general, and Mr Selden, took much notice of him. During the civil wars, he behaved fo well as to gain the efteem of both parties. He was emplayed in his practice by the king's party; and was appointed by the parliament one of the commiffioners to treat with the king. King Charles's death gave him very fenfible regret. However, he took the engagement; and was appointed with feveral others, to confider of the reformation of the law. In 1653, he was by writ made fergeant at law, and foon after appointed one of the juf tices of the Common Pleas. Upon the death of Oliver Cromwell, he refused to accept of the new commiffion offered him by Richard his fucceffor. He was returned for Gloucestershire in the parlia. ment which called home Charles II. Soon after he was made lord chief baron of the exchequer; but declined the honour of knighthood, till lord chancellor Hyde, fending for him upon bufinefs when the king was at his houfe, faid, "There is your majesty's modest chief baron;" upon which he was unexpectedly knighted. He was one of the principal judges that fat in Clifford's Inn, about fettling the differences between landlord and tenant, after the fire of London, in which he behaved to the fatisfaction of all parties concerned. In his poft of chief baron he acted with inflexible integrity. He difmiffed a duke, who wifhed to prejudice him in favour of a caufe he was to bring before him, with a proper reprimand. The duke complained of his rudeness to the king, who told him he verily believed he would have used him no better, had he gone to folicit him in his own cause. In one of his circuits, a gentleman who had a trial at the affizes fent him a buck for his table. When judge Hale therefore heard his name, he asked "if he was not the perfon who had fent him the venifon?" and finding he was, told him, "that he could not fuffer the trial to go on till he had paid him for his buck." The gentleman anfwered, that " he never fold his venifon; and that he had done nothing to him which he did not do to every judge who had gone that circuit:" which was confirmed by feveral gentlemen prefent. The lord chief baron, however, paid for the prefent; upon which the gentleman withdrew the record. In 1671, he was advanced to be lord chief juftice of the king's bench; but about 4 years after this promotion his health declining, he refigned his poft in Feb. 1675-6, and died in Dec. following. This excellent man, who was an ornament to the bench, to his country, and to human na ture, wrote, 1. An Effay on the Gravitation and Non-gravitation of Fluid Bodies. 2. Obfervations touching the Torricellian Experiment. 3. Contemplations, moral and divine. 4. The Life of Pomponius Atticus, with political and moral Reflections. 5. Obfervations on the Principles of natural Motion. 6. The primitive Origination of Mankind. He also left a great number of MSS. in Latin and English, upon various fubjects; among which are, his Pleas of the Crown, fince publifhed by Mr Emlyn in two volumes folio; and his Original Inftitution, Power and Jurifdiction of Parliaments. (2.) HALE. adj. [This should rather be written bail, from bal, health.] Healthy; found; hearty; well complexioned. My feely fheep like well below, ́ For they been bale enough I trow, And liken their abode. Spenfer -Some of these wife partizans concluded the government had hired two or three hundred bale men to be pinioned, if not executed, as the pretended captives. Addison. His ftomach too begins to fail; Laft year we thought him ftrong and hale, But now he's quite another thing: I wish he may hold out 'till spring. Swift. (3.) HALE, in geography, a river of England, in Cornwall, which runs into the fea near St Ives. (4.) HALE, a town of Holftein, 6 miles E. of Kremp. (5.-10.) HALE is alfo the name of 6 English villages, in Cornwall, Cumberland, Hampshire, Lancashire, Middlefex, and Norfolk. *To HALE. v. a. [halen, Dutch; baler, Fr.] To drag by force; to pull violently and rudely. Fly to your house; The plebeians have got your fellow tribune, Starr'd moft unluckily, is from my breaft Shak. Shak. -This finiftrous gravity is drawn that way by the great artery, which then fubfideth, and baleth the heart unto it. Brown.-Who would not be dif gufted with any recreation, in itself indifferent, if he fhould with blows be haled to it when he had no mind? Locke. In all the tumults at Rome, though the people proceeded fometimes to pull and bale one another about, yet no blood was drawn till the time of the Gracchi. Swift. HALEC, the hearing. See CLUPEA, No 4. HALEM, or a town of the French Empire, HALEN, in the dept. of the Dyle, and late prov. of Auftrian Brabant, feated on the Geete, 4 miles SE. of Dieft, and 24 W. of Maeftricht. Lon. 5. 4. E. Lat. 50. 58. N. HALENDORP, a town of Germany, in Holftein, 11 miles ENE. of Eutyn. * HALER. n.. [from bale.] He who pulls and hales. (1.) HALES, Lord. See DALRYMPLE, N° 2. (2.) HALES, Stephen, D. D. and F. R. S. a celebrated divine and philofopher, born in 1677. He was the 6th fon of Thomas Hales, Efq. the eldeft fon of Sir Robert Hales, and Mary the heirefs of Richard Langley of Abbots-Wood in Hertfordshire. In 1696, he was entered at Bennet college, Cambridge; admitted a fellow in 1703. and became B/D. in 1711. He foon difcovered a genius for natural philofophy. Botany was his firft ftudy, which he often profecuted among Gogmagog hills, along with Dr Stukely. He also collected foffils and infects, having contrived a curious inftrument for catching fuch of the latter as have wings. He likewife ftudied aftronomy, chemistry, and anatomy; and invented a curious me thod thod of obtaining a representation of the lungs in lead. Having made himfelf acquainted with the Newtonian fyftem, he contrived a machine for fhowing the phenomena on much the same principles with that of the Orrery, afterwards made by Mr Rowley. About 1710 he was prefented to the perpetual cure of Teddington near Twickenham; afterwards to the living of Porlock in Somerset fhire, which he exchanged for that of Faringdon in Hampshire. Soon after, he married Mary, the daughter and heiress of Dr Newce. On the 13th March 1718, he was elected F.R.S. and on the 5th March, 1719, he exhibited an account of fome experiments he had made on the effect of the fun's warmth in raifing the fap in trees, which procured him the thanks of the fociety. On the 14th of June 1725, he exhibited a treatise on the fame fubject, which, being highly applauded by the fociety, he enlarged and improved; and in April 1727, published it under the title of Vegetable Statics. This work he dedicated to the prince of Wales, afterwards K. George II; and he was the fame year chofen one of the council of the Royal Society. A fecond edition of this work was publifhed in 1737; in the preface to which, he promifed a fequel, which he published in 1733, under the title of Statical Effays, &c. In 1732 he was appointed one of the trustees for eftablishing a new colony in Georgia. On the 5th of July 1733, the university of Oxford made him D. D. although he had been educated at Cambridge, In 1734, he published anonymously, A friendly Admonition to the Drinkers of Brandy and other fpirituous Liquors; and a fermon preached at St Bride's before the reft of the truftees for establishing the colony in Georgia. His text was in Gal. vi. 2. In 1739, he printed Philofophical Experiments on Sea-water, Corn, Flesh, and other Subftances; 8vo. dedicated to the lords of the admiralty. In 1739, he also exhibited to the Society an account of fome experiments towards the difcovery of medicines, for diffolving the ftone in the kidneys and bladder, and preferving meat in long voyages; for which he received Sir Godfrey Copley's gold medal. In 1740, he published fome account of Experiments and Obfervations on Mrs Stephens's Medicines for diffolving the Stone, in which their diffolvent power is inquired into and demonftrated. In 1741, he read before the Society an account of a VENTILATOR, for conveying fresh air into mines, hospitals, prisons, and the clofe parts of fhips. See AIR-PIPES and VENTILATOR. In 1743, he read before the Society a description of a method of conveying liquors into the abdomen during the operation of Tapping; afterwards printed in their Tranfactions. In 1745, he published some experiments and obfervations on tarwater, which he had been induced to make by the publication of a work called Siris, in which Dr Berkley, B. of Cloyne, had recommended tar water as an univerfal medicine. In the fame year he communicated to the public, by a letter to the editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, a defcription of the back-beaver, for winnowing and cleaning corn. He alfo, by the fame channel, communicated a cheap and eafy way to preferve corn sweet in facks; an invention of great benefit to farmers. He also published directions how to keep corn fweet in heaps without turning it, and to fweeten it when mufty. He published a long paper, containing an account of feveral methods to preferve corn by ventilators; with a defcription of feveral forts, illuftrated by a cut, fo that the machine may be conftructed by any carpenter. He publifhed alfo, but anonymously, a detection of the fallacious boafts concerning the efficacy of the liquid fhell in diffolving the ftone in the blad der. In 1746, he communicated to the Royal So ciety a propofal for bringing small paffable ftones foon, and with eafe, out of the bladder. In the Gent. Mag. for July 1747, he published an account of a very confiderable improvement of his back-heaver, by which it became capable of clear ing corn of the very fmall grain, feeds, blacks, fmut-balls, &c. to fuch perfection as to make it fit for feed-corn. In 1748 he communicated to the Society a propofal for checking the progrefs of fires; with 2 memoirs, one on ventilators, and the other on fome experiments in electricity. All thefe papers were printed in the R. Society's Tranfactions. In 1749 his ventilators were fixed in the Savoy prifon; and the benefit was fo great, that though from 80 to 100 in a year often died of the gaol diftemper before, yet from 1749 to 1752 inclufive, only 4 perfons died, and of thofe 4, one died of the fmall-pox, and another of intemperance. In 1750, he publifhed fome confiderations on the caufes of earthquakes; (occafioned by the fhocks felt that year in London; and exhibited an examination of the ftrength of several purging waters, especially that of Flop's well. Both thefe are printed in the Philof. Tranf. He had now been feveral years honoured with the friendship of Frederick Prince of Wales; who frequently vifited him at Teddington. Upon that prince's death in 1750, he was appointed almonér to the Princefs Dowager. In 1752 he was chofen by the college of phyficians to preach the fermon called Crowne's lecture: Dr W. Crowne having left a legacy for a fermon to be annually preached on the wifdom and goodness of God displayed in the formation of man." Dr Hales's text was in Job xii. fz. In the end of 1752, his ventilators, worked by a windmill, were fixed in Newgate, with branching trunks to 24 wards, and it appeared that the difproportion of thofe that died in the gaol before and after this eftablishment was as 16 to 7. He published also a farther account of their fuccefs, and fome obfervations on the great danger arifing from foul air, exemplified by a narrative of feveral perfons feized with a gaol fever by working in Newgate. In 1753, Dr Hales was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris. This year he published in the Gent. Mag. farther confiderations about means to draw the foul air out of the fick rooms of occafional army hospitals, and private houses in town; with many other curious particulars on the ufe of ventilators: also a defcription of a sea gage, which he invented, to measure unfathomable depths. This paper he had drawn up about 1732 or 1733, for the late Colin Campbell, Efq. who employed the ingenious Mr Hawkfbee to make the machine it defcribes, which was tried in various depths, and anfwered with great exactness, but was at last loft near Bermuda. In 1754, he communicated to the the Society fome experiments for keeping water and fifh fweet with lime-water; an account of which was published in the Philof. Trans. He continued to enrich their memoirs with many ufeful articles from this time till his death, particularly a method of forwarding the diftillation of fresh from falt water, by blowing fhowers of fresh air up through the latter during the operation. In 1757, he communicated to the Gent. Mag. an eafy method of purifying the air, and regulating its heat, in melon-frames and green-houses; alfo further improvements in his method of distilling fea-water. Being nominated by K. George II. a canon of Windfor, he engaged the princefs to requeft his majesty to recal his nomination. But he has been justly blamed for this, as indicating a want of benevolence; for if he had no wish for more for himself, a liberal mind would furely have been highly gratified by the diftribution of fo confiderable a fum as a canonry of Windfor would have put into his power, in the reward of industry, the alleviation of distress, and the fupport of helpless indigence. He was, however, remarkable for focial virtue and fweetness of temper; his life was not only blameless, but exemplary. He died at Teddington, in 1761, aged 84; and the princefs of Wales erected a monument to his memory in Wellminster abbey. HALESIA, in botany: A genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the dodecandria class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 18th order, Bicornes. The calyx is quadridentated, fuperior; the corolla quadrifid; the nut quadrangular and difpermous. HALES-OWEN, a town of Salop, inclosed by Worcestersh, famous for nails; 8 m. SW. of Birmingham, and 124 NW. of London. HALESWORTH, a town of Suffolk, feated on an ifthmus between two branches of the Blith, having a trade in linen yarn and fail-cloth. It has one large church, and about 700 good houses; but the streets are narrow. Near it is rzifed a great deal of hemp. It is 32 miles NE. of Ipfwich, and 101 of London. Lon. 1. 40. E. Lat. 52. 25. N. (1.) * HALF. n. f. plural halves. [bealf, Sax. and all the Teutonick dialects. The is often not founded.] 1. A moiety; one part of two; an equal part.-An balf acre of land. 1 Sam. xiv. 14. -Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their induftry the right way. Ben Jon/on. Well chofen friendship, the most noble Of virtues, all our joys makes double, And into halves divides our trouble. Denham. Or what but riches is there known. Which man can folely call his own; In which no creature goes his half, Unless it be to fquint and laugh? Hudibras. No mortal tongue can half the beauty tell; For none but hands divine could work fo well. Dryden. -Of our manufactures foreign markets took off one baif, and the other half were confumed amongst ourselves. Locke.-The council is made up balf out of the noble families, and half out of the plebeian. Addifon on Italy.-Half the mifery of life VOL. XI. PART I might be extinguished, would men alleviate the general curfe by mutual compaffion. Addifon Prior. Her beauty in thy fofter half, Bury'd and loft, fhe ought to grieve. Natural was it for a prince, who had propofed to himself the empire of the world, not to neglect the fea, the half of his dominions. Arbuthnot. 2. It fometimes has a plural fignification when a number is divided.Had the land felected of the best, Half had come hence, and let the world provide the rest. Dryden. (2.) * HALF. adv. 1. In part; equally. I go with love and fortune, two blind guides, To lead my way; half loth, and balf content ing. Dryaen. 2. It is much used in compofition to fignify a thing imperfect, as the following examples will fhow: (1.)* HALF-BLOOD. n. f. One not born of the fame father and mother. Which fhall be heir of the two male twins, who, by the diffection of the mother, were laid open to the world? Whether a filter by the half-blood hall inherit before a brother's daughter by the whole blood. Locke. (2.) HALF-BLOOD, in law. See CONSANGUINITY and INHERITANCE. * HALF-BLOODED. adj. [half and blood.] Mean; degenerate. The let alone lies not in your good will. -Nor in thine, lord. --Half-blooded fellow, yes. Shak. K. Lear. *HALF-CAP, n. f. Cap imperfectly put off, or faintly moved. With certain half-caps and cold moving nods, They froze me into filence. Shak. *HALFENDEAL. n. S. [half and dæl, Saxon.] Part. Spenfer. *HALF-FACED. adj. [half and faced.] Showing only part of the face; fmall faced; in contempt. Proud encroaching tyranny Burns with revenging fire, whofe hopeful colours Advance, a half-faced fun ftriving to shine. Shak. This fame half-fac'd fellow, Shadow; give me this man he prefents no mark to the enemy; the foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife. Shak. HALF-HATCHED. adj. [half and hatch.] Imperfectly hatched. Here, thick as hailftones pour, Turnips, and half-hatch’deggs, a mingled show'r, Among the rabble rain. Gay. * HALF-HEARD. adj. Imperfectly heard; not heard to an end. Not added years on years my task could clofe; Back to thy native islands might'st thou sail, And leave half-beard the melancholy tale. Pope. HALF-MERK, a noble, or 6s. 8d. (1.) * HALF-MOON. n. 1. The moon in its appearance when at half increase or decrease. Any thing in the figure of a half-moon. 2. See how in warlike mufter they appear, In rhombs and wedges, and half-moens and wings. MIN (2.) HALF-MOON, in fortification, an outwo.k compofed of two faces, forming a faliant an D |