Half-Breed

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half-breed

1. Offensive a person whose parents are of different races, esp the offspring of a White person and an American Indian

2. of, relating to, or designating offspring of people or animals of different races or breeds

Half-Breed

the offspring produced from interracial marriages. In anthropology, half-breeds usually occupy an intermediate position between the mixed races. In America the offspring of a white person and an American Indian are called half-breeds.

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No references found			It was a matter of general joy, therefore, when he made his appearance, conducted by two half-breed Iroquois hunters. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context All at once the doctor flung himself free, seized the heavy headboard of Williams' grave and felled Potter to the earth with it -- and in the same instant the half-breed saw his chance and drove the knife to the hilt in the young man's breast. Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context When he went on next day with his half-breed companion, he said 'Good-bye,' taking off his hat quite in the old style. King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context			half S-trap half section half set half slating Half Space half step half story half tap half term half thickness half tide half timber half time half tone half truss half volley half-adder half-adjust half-and-half half-and-half solder half-angle formulas half-arc angle half-bastion half-blind dovetail half-breadth plan Half-Breed half-brick wall half-bridge half-caste half-cell half-cell potential half-convergency half-course half-crown half-cut notch half-cycle transmission half-dog setscrew half-dovetail notch half-dugout half-duplex half-duplex circuit half-duplex operation half-duplex repeater half-gabled half-glass door half-hard half-hardy plant half-header half-height drive half-hipped roof half-hour			half-awake Half-back half-baked half-baked half-ball half-balls Half-Band Width half-bastion half-begun half-binding Half-birthday half-blind half-blind dovetail half-blood half-blood half-blooded half-blooded half-blue half-blues half-board Half-boot half-boots half-bottle half-bottles half-bound Half-breadth plan Half-breadth plan half-bred half-bred Half-Breed Half-Breed (disambiguation) Half-Breed (disambiguation) half-breeds half-breeds half-brick wall half-bridge Half-Bridge Commutating Forward half-bridge series-resonant buck-boost inverter half-brother half-brother Half-brother and half-sister Half-brothers Half-brothers half-buried half-butt half-butts Half-cast Half-cast half-caste half-caste half-castes half-castes half-cell half-cell half-cell potential half-centuries half-century half-circle Half-clammed half-closed

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