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A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler. [Local, U.S.]

To deprive of the helmet. [Poetic] Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale. Tennyson.

Intestinal worms. See Helminthes.

An order of helminths, including the Nematoidea and Gordiacea; the roundworms. [Written also Nematelminthea.]

ear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly. The sea overwhelmed their enemies. Ps. lxxviii. 53. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. Ps. lv. 5. Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them. Shak. Gaza yet stands; but all her sons are f…

Overpowering; irresistible. -- O`ver*whelm"ing*ly, adv.

One of the Platyelminthes.

Same as Platyelminthes.

Same as Platyelminthes. [Written also Platyelmia.]

To deprive of the helm or helmet. Sir W. Scott.

Divested or deprived of the helm or helmet.

To deprive of the helmet. Sir W. Scott.

er or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf. She is my prize, or ocean whelm them all! Shak. The whelming billow and the faithless oar. Gay.

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly. "Amazing Europe with her wit." Goldsmith. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David Matt. xii. 23.

The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration. His words impression left Of much amazement. Milton.

Articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]

Anthelmintic.