Definition of "half-bound" [half•-bound]

• Having a half binding. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "There was one sequence that included going from seated frog pose to a half-bound intermediate pose, then coming up into [...]"
• "Toy-sized dogs half-bound, bringing their two hind legs forward at once but uncoupling their front footfalls."
• "“I suppose the learned author very little thinks that the facts which his erudition and acuteness have accumulated for the illustration of legal doctrines, might be so arranged as to form a sort of appendix to the half-bound and slip-shod volumes of the circulating library.”"