half-seas over
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of half-seas over
First recorded in 1545–55
Example Sentences
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Or, enter Mr. Kipling’s sailor, “the original Stephano fresh from the seas and half-seas over.”
From Project Gutenberg
But it is all Prospero’s wealth against Caliban’s pignuts that to him in a receptive hour, sent by heaven, entered the original Stephano fresh from the seas and half-seas over.
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Such designations as the Cape Club,—so called from doubling the Cape of Leith Wynd, when half-seas over, to get home to the burgh of Low Calton, where several of the members lived; the Pious Club, because the brethren met regularly to consume pies; the Spendthrift Club, because no habitu� was permitted to spend more than fourpence halfpenny, and others, were harmless in their way, and promoted a cheap bonhomie without leading the burghers into disgraceful excesses.
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The Master of the Hounds received the kiss, while his neighbor, grave like a man half-seas over, said in a magisterial voice: "Brothers, I have an idea—" "Your idea, Symphorien, seems to be to drain that amphora to the very bottom."
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We have been more, we suspect, than half-seas over, and are now lying on the shore of sobriety, almost a wreck.
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