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The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen. "The Helotry of Mammon." Macaulay.

A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.

A book in seven languages.

A holothurian.

One of the Holothurioidea.

One of the classes of echinoderms.

A group of ciliated Infusoria, having cilia all over the body.

See Hylotheism.

A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency. R. Hunt.

The doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism.

One who believes in hylotheism.

See Celotomy.

A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, etc.

A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.

One who, by his officious

A coarse cloth.

A dish of food composed of many kings of fish.

A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc.

Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull. -- n.

Any species of Melilotus, a genus of leguminous herbs having a vanillalike odor; sweet clover; hart's clover. The blue melilot (Melilotus cærulea) is used in Switzerland to give color and flavor to sapsago cheese.