(Of animals) having only one purebred parent.
1 The first that he smote to the death was a half - bred boar.
2 Then, by way of idleness, he bred some of the half - bred mares.
3 A black stallion with red nose and long full tail, half - bred Arabian.
4 The blacks an' yellers an' half - bred fellers and ornery folk like me.
5 In England half - bred Angora cats are perfectly fertile with one another.
6 Three or four dogs, setters and half - bred greyhounds, trotted along behind the wagons.
7 Wabi, half - bred in the wild, felt alarm only in the sense of physical peril.
8 This structure of the feathers is transmitted to half - bred birds.
9 The dog was a half - bred boarhound, and a savage brute on her own account.
10 Meanwhile the thorough-bred deer-hound and the half - bred mastiff sniffed at each other in polite salutation.
11 If you think Anne a half - bred person, Lady Lundie, you stand alone in your opinion.
12 He called me a half - bred Maori nigger, an' so--
13 Mastiffs, terriers, and half - bred pointers make the best ''coon-dogs.'
14 There was good, honest stuff in her, in spite of her second-rate vanities and half - bred ambitions.
15 I obtained them of a half - bred Choctaw, and they were valued at five hundred dollars each.
16 Although no bear could squeeze in here, these half - bred wolves might, and tear us all in pieces.
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