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