Word Meanings - HALF-HEARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. And leave half-heard the melancholy tale. Pope.

Related words: (words related to HALF-HEARD)

• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• PARTLY
  In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly. "I partly believe it." 1 Cor. xi. 18.
• LEAVENING
  1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
• LEAVELESS
  Leafless. Carew.
• MELANCHOLY
  1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak. 2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia. 3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
• LEAVEN
  alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough,
• LEAVENOUS
  Containing leaven. Milton.
• LEAVER
  One who leaves, or withdraws.
• LEAVE
  To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher.
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• HEARD
  imp. & p. p. of Hear.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
  Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• UNHEARD-OF
  New; unprecedented; unparalleled. Swift.
• CLEAVELANDITE
  A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
• CLEAVE
  clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of
• FORLEAVE
  To leave off wholly. Chaucer.
• SLEAVED
  Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed.
• UNHEARD
  1. Not heard; not perceived by the ear; as, words unheard by those present. 2. Not granted an audience or a hearing; not allowed to speak; not having made a defense, or stated one's side of a question; disregarded; unheeded; as, to condemunheard.
• HALF-HEARD
  Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. And leave half-heard the melancholy tale. Pope.
• DISLEAVE
  To deprive of leaves. The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.