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f time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. Glanvill. Spelman. Cowell. Blackstone. Tomlins. Burrill.

A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.

Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.

The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

ach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts. W. Black.

or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather ! Totten.

Covered with, or containing, bark. "The barky fingers of the elm." Shak.

A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor. [Written also basinet, bassinet, basnet.]

itude; to be firm; not to sink; as, to bear up under afflictions. (b) (Naut.) To put the helm up (or to windward) and so put the ship before the wind; to bear away. Hamersly. -- To bear upon (Mil.), to be pointed or situated so as to affect; to be pointed directly against, or so as to hit (the object); as, to bring or…

. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.

piece of armor which protected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate. It was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.

A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night. Totten.

The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it. Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.

by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table. Spelman.

r chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

[Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.

To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.

Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth.

le Ages. [Written also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.

The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay. Cowper.