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A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages.

A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields. By hedgerow elms and hillocks green. Milton.

See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.

To overwhelm. [Obs.] Spenser.

ge. -- Heriot service (Law), a heriot due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands. Spelman. Blackstone.

ue hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.

leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.

ecord, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial. "Immemorial elms." Tennyson. "Immemorial usage or custom." Sir M. Hale. Time immemorial (Eng. Law.), a time antedating (legal) history, and beyond "legal memory" so called; formerly an indefinite time, but in 1276 this time was fixed by statu…

To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm. The queen immersed in such a trance. Tennyson. It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this. Atterbury.

The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness. Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life. Atterbury.

To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores. [India] Wilhelm.

To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. [Obs.] Shak.

To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf. A river large . . . Passed underneath ingulfed. Milton.

The interval or space between two pilasters. Elmes.

nts. Intestinal canal. Same as Intestine, n. -- Intestinal worm (Zoöl.), any species of helminth living in the intestinal canal of any animal. The species are numerous.

One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman.

An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge. [Written also cusso and kosso.]

A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.

unted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations. Wilhelm.

The lading of a ship; also, ballast. Spelman.