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reserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc. Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears, And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars, And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to a suborder of urticaceous plants, of which the elm is the type.

A genus of trees including the elm.

rd was sometimes attached. This was sometimes fixed, and sometimes moved freely upon the helmet and could be raised like the beaver. Called also umber, and umbril. [Obs.] But only vented up her umbriere. Spenser.

ticaceæ) of plants, of which the nettle is the type. The order includes also the hop, the elm, the mulberry, the fig, and many other plants.

] Through utter and through middle darkness borne. Milton. The very utter part pf Saint Adelmes point is five miles from Sandwich. Holinshed.

That part of a helmet which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor. Spenser. Her ventail up so high that he descried Her goodly visage and her beauty's pride. Fairfax.

One who treats of vermes, or worms; a helminthologist.

A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoölogy which treats of worms; helminthology. [R.]

n extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnæus and his followers.…

Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.

A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.

A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.

A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths.

To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

The theory, advanced by Thomson (Lord Kelvin) on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid. Various properties of such atoms (vortex atoms) can be mathe…

A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. [Obs. & R.] His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.

Forces; army. [Poetic] On their embattled ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war. Milton.

d birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission. Spelman. They wend both warren and in waste. Piers Plowman.

A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.