| Aeson | [pron: 'eeson] father of Jason and half-brother of Pelion; magically restored to youth by Medea |
| angel | gold coin [with the angel Michael depicted], value between a third and half of a pound |
| beesome | blear-eyed, half-blind |
| bisson | blear-eyed, half-blind |
| Centaur | creature with the upper half of a man and the rear legs of a horse; reputed for bestial behaviour |
| codling | unripe apple, half-grown apple |
| crescent | waxing moon, growing person |
| Cynthia | Roman goddess of the moon; one of the identities of Diana |
| demi-Atlas | supporter of half the world |
| demi-devil | half-devil |
| Diana | Roman goddess associated with the Moon, chastity, and hunting |
| Dictynna | [pron: dik'tina] one of the titles of the Roman goddess of the Moon |
| divided | broken, stifled, half-smothered |
| doit | [small Dutch coin = half an English farthing] trivial sum, worthless amount, trifle |
| dragon's tail | [astrology] intersection of the orbit of the descending moon and that of the sun [associated with lechery] |
| Endymion | [pron: en'dimion] young shepherd loved by Selene (the Moon); Zeus granted his wish of eternal sleep, so he remained forever young |
| faint | feeble, half-hearted |
| faintly | timidly, half-heartedly, without conviction |
| half | go half-shares with one, share the stake with one |
| half | other half, wife |
| half-blooded | of only one noble parent; bastard |
| half-blown | half-blossomed |
| half-cap | half removal of the cap by way of negligent courtesy |
| half-cheek | profile, side-view |
| half-cheeked | [horse-riding] with broken side-rings [cheeks]; or: halfway up the cheeks |
| half-face | profile, side-view |
| half-faced | imperfect, incomplete, defective |
| half-faced | thin-faced, with a pinched look |
| half-faced | [of a coin] showing a monarch's profile; also: clipped, imperfect |
| half-faced | with only half the face visible |
| half-kirtle | skirt [lower part of a kirtle] |
| half-malcontent | somewhat discontented, disaffected, dissatisfied |
| half-part | half each, fair shares |
| halfpence | silver coin worth half of one penny |
| half-sight | someone half-blind |
| half-supped | with supper interrupted, half-satisfied |
| half-sword, at | at the length of a small-sized sword, at close quarters |
| half-worker | co-worker, cooperator, collaborator |
| half-world | hemisphere, half of the globe |
| harpy | mythical rapacious bird, half woman, half vulture [symbolizing divine retribution] |
| hatch | lower part of a door, half-door, gate |
| hatched | with the upper half closed |
| Hyperion | [pron: hiy'peerion] Greek god, son of Uranus and Gaia, who fathered the Sun, Moon, and Dawn; often, the Sun itself, with a horse-drawn chariot |
| ides | [Roman calendar] half-way point in a month |
| Ides of March | in the Roman calendar, 15 March, the half-way point through March |
| idly | indifferently, half-heartedly, unenthusiastically |
| innocent | silly, half-witted, foolish |
| Isis | [pron: 'iysis] Egyptian goddess of the moon, fertility, and magic |
| Juno | Roman supreme goddess, wife of Jupiter, associated with the Moon, childbirth, marriage, and female identity |
| Luna | one of the titles of the Roman goddess of the Moon |
| Minotaur | ['minotawr] son of Pasiphae and a bull from the sea, half bull and half human; kept in Minos' labyrinth; killed by Theseus |
| moiety | half, equal share |
| moist star | the Moon [because of its influence on the tides] |
| moon, below the | of this world, not spiritual |
| natural | congenital idiot, half-wit, fool |
| natural | like a half-wit, idiotically |
| peep | peer through half-closed eyes |
| Phoebe | one of the titles of the Roman goddess of the Moon |
| picked-hatch | spiked half-door; house of ill-repute, brothel |
| pink | half-shut, blinking, tiny |
| purblind | half-blind, dim-sighted |
| royal | kingly; also: to the value of the English coin worth half a pound |
| royal | gold coin, value of half a pound |
| sand-blind | half-blind, dim-sighted |
| scantly | scantily, grudgingly, half-heartedly |
| Siren | sea demon of Greek mythology, half bird, half woman, whose music lured sailors to destruction on the rocky shores of her island |
| soul | half-wit, cretin, simpleton |
| Typhon | giant, half man half animal, who fought against the Olympian gods |
| wittolly | cuckoldy; also: half-witted |
| zodiac | belt of the celestial sphere within which the sun, moon, and planets appear to move, divided into twelve equal domains [signs] named after constellations |