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e strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues. Melmoth.

superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.

To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

Having joint or equal signification; synonymous. [R.] Spelman.

St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint.

some other person or thing. Locke. Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives. Spelman.

To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.

A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged. Wilhelm.

To overwhelm; to spread over. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen. Ex. xiv. 28.

n a bond. To credit with, to give credit for; to assign as justly due to any one. Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any others to be credited with the clear enunciation of this doctrine. Newman.

The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the weare; hence, also, the helmet. Stooping low his lofty crest. Sir W. Scott. And on his head there stood upright A crest, in token of a knight. Gower.

Having a crest. But laced crested helm. Dryden.

To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight. To crush the pillars which the pile sustain. Dryden. Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. Bryant.

That crushes; overwhelming. "The blow must be quick and crushing." Macualay.

propriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman.

Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. "The deluge of summer." Lowell. A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. Milton. As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison.…

The state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in water. Ray.

n the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.

e act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. -Wilhelm. Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.H.L. Scott.

in others; distrustful. [Archaic] You were always extremely diffident of their success. Melmoth.