half-cock

(hif’kok’), v. t To cock the ham- mer of, as a gun, so that it rests at the first notch. half-communion (hif’ko-mi’nyon), ». The use of but one element in the communion; communion in one kind. The term is applied to the practice of the Roman Catholic Church, in which the celebrant receives the communion in both kinds, but administers only the wafer to the people. The doctrine of _ that church is that Christ. is received whole and entire under either kind — that is, under the form of bread alone or wine alone; and the restriction placed upon the people -_ in communion is for the avoidance of sacrilege. half-compa t, adv. With the body half enveloped. m 2687 half-hearted ne When you came first, did you not walk the town 2. A male fallow-deer gelded.—8. pl. An ex- In a long cloak, half-compa ? elamation among children which entitles the Fletcher (and another), Noble Gentleman, v. 1. utterer to half of anything found by his comhalf-crown (hi if’kroun’),. 1. An English silpanion. ver coin of half the Tf the finder previously says, “ No halfers, findee keepee, value of the crown loosee seekee,” he is entitled to keep the thing. —that is, 2s. 6d. It Hall i well. has been current