Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun On coasting-vessels, a landsman, or deck-boy.
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Examples
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One of the characters Perseus, Draco and their fellow journeymen come up against is half-man, half-monster Calibos.
41 High Resolution Photos from Clash of the Titans | /Film 2010
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BTW, Maybe what's bothering Begala, is he knows that a hot woman like Palin wouldn't look twice at a half-man liberal dweeb like him.
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Various theories identify the maiden as Amymone, one of the 50 daughters of Danaus, kidnapped by Poseidon; or Perimele, a nymph rescued from drowning by Poseidon; or Scylla, courted by the sea god Glaucus, half-man and half-fish.
Masterful Engravers Judy Fayard 2011
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I don't need to remind anyone in this room that top‑level rugby – top, top level – is all about being able to look yourself in the mirror in the morning without seeing a half-man with empty eyes.
MBMs we wish we'd done in 2011 – No4: England's post-Dwarfgate meeting 2011
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For most of recorded history, the half-man, half-wolf lycanthrope reigned supreme as the creature travellers most feared encountering in the woods and along dark roads at night.
WHERE ARE ALL THE WEREWOLVES? | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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He laughed and jeered at Jerry with falsetto chucklings that were more like the jungle-noises of tree-dwelling creatures, half-bird and half-man, than of a man, all man, and therefore a god.
CHAPTER II 2010
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My horoscope sign isSagittarius, the archer who is half-man and half-horse.
Tom Matlack: Is It Safe to Come Out of the Cave? Tom Matlack 2011
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They are the half-man, half-god heroes who walked the world in days of yore.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Keen to keep the momentum going, organisers have unveiled a new mascot for the race, a half-man, half-horse centaur called Kegasus, reports NBC.
Men in suits try to do a deal with the Boys of South Africa 2011
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“It's a half-ape, half-man that lives up in the mountains in Alaska.”
The Monster Con Chapman 2011
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