Halves meaning

The mouth is very narrow, and the halves of the under-jaw are not distensible.

Each valve is formed by the halves of contiguous carpels.

He took a potato, drew out his clasp knife, cut the potato into two equal halves on the palm of his hand, sprinkled some salt on it from the rag, and handed it to Pierre.

Its two halves have each a negative and a positive scene.

Having dwelt in that egg for a year, that lord spontaneously by his own thought split that egg in two; and from the two halves he fashioned the heaven and the earth, and in the middle,the sky,and the eight regions (the points of the compass), and the perpetual place of the waters.