Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a half binding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bound in half-binding: as, a half-bound book.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of books) having the back bound in one material and the sides in another
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Examples
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Toy-sized dogs half-bound, bringing their two hind legs forward at once but uncoupling their front footfalls.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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There was one sequence that included going from seated frog pose to a half-bound intermediate pose, then coming up into [...]
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Toy-sized dogs half-bound, bringing their two hind legs forward at once but uncoupling their front footfalls.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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“I suppose the learned author very little thinks that the facts which his erudition and acuteness have accumulated for the illustration of legal doctrines, might be so arranged as to form a sort of appendix to the half-bound and slip-shod volumes of the circulating library.”
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Post 4to. ruled throughout and strongly half-bound. 12s.
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F.S.A., &c. &c. Quarto; with a portrait; handsomely printed in 4to.; half-bound in Moroco, 15s.
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F.S.A., &c. &c. Quarto; with a Portrait; handsomely printed in 4to.; half-bound in morocco, 15s.
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She had a book in each hand; they were half-bound volumes with marble covers!
The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty
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F.S.A., &c. &c. Quarto; with a Portrait; handsomely printed in 4to.; half-bound in morocco, 15s.
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Also in half-bound leather, cloth sides, 3/6; bound in cloth, extra gilt, 2/6.
The Girls of St. Olave's Mabel Mackintosh
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