half-line

[ haf-lahyn, hahf- ]

noun

, Mathematics.

1. ray ¹( def 7b ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of half-line¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

It is noteworthy that, out of these twenty-seven instances, the added n appears sixteen times at the end of line or half-line.

From Project Gutenberg

Now Bartels points out that in Layamons verse there is no enjambment and no beginning of a clause in the middle of a half-line.

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A half line is missing, something like, liues louerd so he is, corresponding to mortis vindex in T. Comp.

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The missing half line may have been something like, to is dale nier, as in l. 4.

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Perhaps fikenunge, deceit; or, for the last half-line read for ure unframe, comp.

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