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A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet. I must get a sconce for my head. Shak.

f the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.

or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; submarine; as, a subaqueous helmet.

ators; submarine plants. Submarine armor, a waterproof dress of strong material, having a helmet into which air for breathing is pumped through a tube leading from above the surface to enable a diver to remain under water. -- Submarine cable. See Telegraph cable, under Telegraph. -- Submarine mine. See Torpedo, 2 (a)…

A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.] The shields bright, testers, and trappures. Chaucer.

ss by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer. Tilting helmet, a helmet of large size and unusual weight and strength, worn at tilts.

preserved 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.

ard 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.

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

Divested or deprived of the helm or helmet.

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.

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 helmeted Australian cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus); -- called also funeral cockatoo.