halfing

For awhile there I had become my mom and was automatically halfing the amount of sugar called for in a recipe.

» Chocolate Chip Cookie Monsters Strocel.com 2010

Stross plays with the Bond character types here, but the female assassin is a halfing from Dunwich with a demon problem, for example.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross Blue Tyson 2008

Why are all the other taxes increasing when over the past few years with property values doubling, the taxes are doubling and services are halfing.

Sound Politics: It's in the P-I 2007

All of these CEO's everywhere in USA are snatching millions of obscene dollars in bonus 'etc., because they smell the almighty dollar might permanently implode halfing 20 million dollars into ten, your 40 grand a year into 20 grand, the purchasing power for all imported goods, cut in half.

OpEdNews - Diary: Health Care Redux Covering All Without an Act of Congress 2009

Stross plays with the Bond character types here, but the female assassin is a halfing from Dunwich with a demon problem, for example.

Archive 2008-09-01 Blue Tyson 2008

I actually ended up halfing the recipe, and then making the other half when I realized the original wasn't going to be enough.

Kamut, Candied Pumpkin, and Hazelnut Cake Mercedes 2007

This is not the first halfing to have crossed your path?

CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2004 2004

Whatever is thought within the circuit of the Great Wall; what the wry-eyed, spectacled schoolmaster teaches in the hamlets round Pekin; religions so old that our language looks a halfing boy alongside; philosophy so wise that our best philosophers find things therein to wonder at; all this travelled alongside of me for thousands of miles over plain and mountain.

Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays 1892

The _Venetians_ consideration of waight, may seme precise enough: by eight descentes progressionall, * halfing, from a grayne.

The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567

That could undo gains including the near-halfing of poverty since the end of the war, Hidalgo worries.

FP Passport 2009