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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Hĕlm'-wind, n. p. 619A wind coming from or attending the kind of cloud called helm. See HELM. Burn.Hē'lot or Hēl'ot, n. p. 619A slave in ancient Sparta; hence, a slave. Those unfortunates—the Helots of mankind, more or less numerous in every community. I. Taylor.Hĕ'lot-ism or Hē'lot-ism, n. p. 619The condition of the Helots, slaves in Sparta; slavery.Hē'lot-ry p. 619or Hē'lot-ry, n. The collective body of the Helots, or of a class in a similar condition. Macaulay.Hĕlp, v. t. p. 619To furnish strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help another in raising a building; to…Hĕlp, v. i. p. 619To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means. A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person. Garth. To help out, to lend aid; to bring a supply.Hĕlp, n. p. 619Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; assistance. God is . . . a very present help in trouble. Ps. xlvi. 1. Virtue is a friend and a…Hēlp'er, n. p. 619One that helps, aids, or assists; an assistant; an auxiliary. Compassion . . . is oftentimes a helper of evils. More.Hēlp'ful, a. p. 619Furnishing help; useful; wholesome. “Helpful medicines.” Raleigh. Heaven make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him. Shak.Hēlp'ful-ness, n. p. 619The state of being helpful; assistance; usefulness. Milton.Hēlp'less, a. p. 620Destitute of help or strength; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless babe. How shall I then your helpless fame defend? Pope. 2. Beyond help; irremediable. “Some helpless disagreement or dislike…Hĕlp'less-ly, adv. p. 620In a helpless manner.Hēlp'less-ness, n. p. 620The state of being helpless.Hĕlp'māte or Hĕlp'meet, n. p. 620An assistant; a helper; a companion; a consort; a wife.Hĕl'ter-skĕl'ter, adv. p. 620In hurry and confusion. [Colloq.] Helter-skelter have I rode to thee. Shak.Hĕlve, n. p. 620The handle of an ax or hatchet; sometimes the head of the ax. The helve of the ax craved a handle of the wood of oaks. Fuller.Hēlve, v. t. p. 620To furnish with a helve, as an ax.Hel-vět'ic, a. p. 620Pertaining to the Helveti, the inhabitants of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitants of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.Hēl'vine, n. p. 620(Min.) A mineral of a yellowish color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron.Hēm, n. p. 620The border of a garment, doubled and sewed to strengthen it and prevent the raveling of the edge. 2. Border; edge; margin. “Hem of the sea.” Shak. 3. A particular sound of the human voice, expressed…Hēm, v. t. p. 620To form into a hem or border; to fold and sew down the edge of. 2. To border; to edge. All the skirt about Was hemmed with golden fringe. Spenser. To hem about, around, or in, to inclose and confine…Hĕm, interj. p. 620An exclamation whose utterance is a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, as the emotion may suggest. It would perhaps be better expressed by hm.Hēm, v. i. p. 620To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking.Hēm'a-chate, n. p. 620(Min.) A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper. Dana.Hēm'a-chrōme, n. p. 620(Chem.) The coloring matter of blood; hematine.Hĕm'a-drŏm'e-ter, n. p. 620(Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.Hēm′/a-dÿn′/a-mŏm′/e-ter, n. p. 620(Physiol.) An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.Hē'mal, a. p. 620Relating to the blood or blood-vessels. See VERTEBRA. Dunglison.Hē-măn’thus, n. p. 620(Bot.) A genus of plants having bulbous roots; blood-flower.Hēm'a-po-phys'ial, a. p. 620Relating to an hemapophysis.Hēm'a-pŏph'y-sis, n. p. 620(Med.) A costal cartilage. See VERTEBRA. Dunglison.Hēm'a-stāt'ic or Hēm'a-stāt'ic-al, a. p. 620(Med.) Serving to arrest the escape or flow of blood; checking hemorrhage.Hēm'a-stāt'ic, n. p. 620(Med.) A substance or application which arrests the flow of blood.Hēm'a-te-mē'sis, n. p. 620(Med.) A vomiting of blood.Hēm'a-thĕrm, n. p. 620A warm-blooded animal;—so called by Latreille. [Rare.]Hēm'a-tīne, n. p. 620(Chem.) (a.) The coloring principle of logwood, of a red color and bitterish taste. Chevreul. (b.) The coloring matter of the blood.Hē'ma-tīte, n. p. 620(Min.) An important ore of iron, the sesqui-oxide, so called because of the red color of the powder;—also called specular iron, oligist iron, and rhombohedral iron ore. ☞ Limonite, or the hydrous…Hēm'a-tīt'ic, a. p. 620Pertaining to hematite, or resembling it; composed of, or containing, hematite.Hē-măt'ō-cēle or Hēm'a-tō-cēle, n. p. 620(Med.) A tumor filled with blood.Hēm'a-tŏl'ō-gy, n. p. 620(Med.) That branch of medical science which pertains to the blood.He-măt'/o-sine, n. p. 620(Chem.) A product of the decomposition of blood, of a dark-brown color, and forming red solutions with alkalies. It contains part of the iron of the blood. Gregory.Hēm'a-tō'sis, n. p. 620(Physiol.) (a.) Sanguification; the conversion of chyle into blood. (b.) The arterialization of the blood in the lungs.Hēm'a-tū'ri-ā, n. p. 620(Med.) The passage of urine mingled with blood.Hēm'e-ra-lō'pi-ă, n. p. 620(Med.) A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can only see by daylight, and not by artificial light; night-blindness. Dunglison.Hēm'e-ro-bāp'tist, n. p. 620(Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect among the Jews who bathed every day. Fuller.Hēm'e-ro-cæl'lis, n. p. 620(Bot.) A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day-lily.Hĕm'i p. 620A prefix signifying half, and equivalent to the Lat. semi and the Fr. demi.Hēm'i-cärp, n. p. 620(Bot.) One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.Hĕm'i-crā'ni-ă or Hĕm'i-crā'ny, n. p. 620(Med.) A pain that affects only one side of the head.Hēm'i-cy'cle, n. p. 620A half circle; a semicircle.Hĕm'/i-dăc'tyl, a. p. 620Having an oval disk at the base of the toes;—said of certain saurian reptiles.Hēm'i-dī'tōne, n. p. 620(Gr. Mus.) The lesser third. Busby.Hē-mīg'a-mōūs, a. p. 620(Bot.) Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female;—said of grasses.Hĕm′i-glyph, n. p. 620(Arch.) The half-channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.Hĕm'i-hē'dral, a. p. 620(Crystallog.) Having half of the similar parts in a crystal, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid…Hĕm'i-hē'dral-ly, adv. p. 620In a hemihedral manner.Hĕm'i-hē'drĭsm, n. p. 620(Crystallog.) The property of crystallizing hemihedrally.Hĕm'i-hē'dron, n. p. 620(Crystallog.) A solid hemihedrally derived. Thus, the tetrahedron is a hemihedron.Hĕm'i-mōrph'ic, a. p. 620(Crystallog.) Having the two ends modified with unlike planes;—said of a crystal.Hēm'i-nā, n. p. 620(Rom. Antiq.) A measure containing half a sextary, and, according to Arbuthnot, about half a pint English wine measure. 2. (Med.) A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces. Quincy.