half-breed

(hif’bréd), n. and a. I, n. 1. One who is half-blooded; one descended from parents or ancestors of different races: specifically applied to persons descended from certain races of different physical characteristics, as the offspring of American Indians and whites. In this expre ion persons with any perceptible trace of Indian blood, whether mixed with white or with negro stock, are popularly included. F. A. Walker. 2. In U. S. politics, a member of a faction in the Republican party in the State of New York, in 1881 and the years immediately following, which opposed the portion of the party in that State which had control of the party organization: so called in derision, as being but half Republican, by the members of the opposite faction or “ stalwarts.” eee Half-Breed is a Republican pbs is di atisfied with e Machine and acts against it. The Nation, June 16, 1881, p. 415. II. a. Half-blood.