halfwit

A silly fellow; a blockhead. "Half-wits are fleas, so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite." foolish. "Not a shekel, not a silver penny, not a halfling." Scott: Ivanhoe, ch. v. half-pen-nỹ ( pl. half-pençe, half-pen-nieş) ( If silent), s. & a. [Eng. half, and penny.] A. As substantive: I. Lit .: An English copper coin of the value of half a penny, or one cent. "Bardolph stole a lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for three halfpence ." -Shakesp.: Henry V., iii. 2. II. Figuratively : 1. Anything of very little value or importance; a very slight amount or value. *2. A small fragment. hall *hal-i-dom, *hal-1-dome, *hal-li-dome, *hol11-dam, s. [A. S. háligdóm =holine , anything holy or sacred, a relic, .] 1. A word used in adjurations; a sacred word of honor; a religious oath. 2. Lands belonging to a religious foundation. "Within the halidome or patrimony of the Abbey." Scott : Monastery , ch. v.