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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Half \Half\, n.; pl. Halves. [AS. healf. See Half, a.]
1. Part; side; behalf. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
The four halves of the house. --Chaucer.
2. One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided,
or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as,
a half of an apple.
Not half his riches known, and yet despised.
--Milton.
A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between
us. --Tennyson.
Better half. See under Better.
In half, in two; an expression sometimes used improperly
instead of in or into halves; as, to cut in half.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.
In, or On, one's half, in one's behalf; on one's part.
[Obs.]
To cry halves, to claim an equal share with another.
To go halves, to share equally between two.