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whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter. I am my father's heir and only son. Shak.

l; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director. The helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers. Shak.

lps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish. Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Ps. x. 14. Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils. Dr. H. More.

In this. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit. John xv. 8.

s inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance. Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

Heritage; inheritance. [R.] Robbing their children of the heritance Their fathers handed down Southey.

One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.

hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.

ecret; to refrain from avowing or confessing. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. Pope.

To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out. What hinders younger brothers, being fathers of families, from having the same right Locke.

and allied genera of Suidæ; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.

age or weight. They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails. Pope. Hoisting him into his father's throne. South. Hoisting engine, a steam engine for operating a hoist.

which the infant Christ, his parents, and others of his family are represented. -- Holy Father, a title of the pope. -- Holy Ghost (Theol.),the third person of the Trinity; the Comforter; the Paraclete. -- Holy Grail. See Grail. -- Holy grass (Bot.), a sweet-scented grass (Hierochloa borealis and H. alpina). In th…

exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron. Book of Homilies. A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued in the reign of Eliza…

ntury, who held that the Son was of like, but not the same, essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoousian.

the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian.

submission; when used of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship. Honor thy father and thy mother. Ex. xx. 12. That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. John v. 23. It is a custom More honor'd in the breach than the observance. Shak.

The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former.

by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.