Helminthic adjective [ Confer French helminthique .] Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms. -- noun A vermifuge; an anthelmintic.

Helminthite noun [ Greek ..., ..., a worm.] (Geol.) One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.

Helminthoid adjective [ Greek ..., ..., a worm + -oid .] Wormlike; vermiform.

Helminthologic, Helminthological adjective [ Confer French helminthologique .] Of or pertaining to helminthology.

Helminthologist noun [ Confer French helminthologiste .] One versed in helminthology.

Helminthology noun [ Greek ..., ..., a worm + -logy : confer French helminthologie .] The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms.

Helmless adjective
1. Destitute of a helmet.

2. Without a helm or rudder. Carlyle.

Helmsman noun ; plural Helmsmen The man at the helm; a steersman.

Helmwind noun A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm . [ Prov. Eng.]

Helot noun [ Latin Helotes , Hilotae , plural, from Greek E'e`lws and E'elw`ths a bondman or serf of the Spartans; so named from 'Elos , a town of Laconia, whose inhabitants were enslaved; or perhaps akin to e`lei^n to take, conquer, used as 2d aor. of ....] A slave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf.

Those unfortunates, the Helots of mankind, more or less numerous in every community.

I. Taylor.

Helotism noun The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery.

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

Help (hĕlp) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Helped (hĕlpt) (Obsolete imperfect Holp (hōlp) past participle Holpen (hōl"p'n)); present participle & verbal noun Helping .] [ Anglo-Saxon helpan ; akin to Old Saxon helpan , Dutch helpen , German helfen , Old High German helfan , Icelandic hjālpa , Swedish hjelpa , Danish hielpe , Goth. hilpan ; confer Lithuanian szelpti , and Sanskrit klp to be fitting.]
1. To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to ; as, " Help me scale yon balcony." Longfellow.

2. To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. "God help , poor souls, how idly do they talk!" Shak.

3. To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object. "To help him of his blindness." Shak.

The true calamus helps coughs.

Gerarde.

4. To change for the better; to remedy.

Cease to lament for what thou canst not help .

Shak.

5. To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it? Swift.

6. To forbear; to avoid.

I can not help remarking the resemblance betwixt him and our author.

Pope.

7. To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.

To help forward , to assist in advancing. -- To help off , to help to go or pass away, as time; to assist in removing. Locke. -- To help on , to forward; to promote by aid. -- To help out , to aid, as in delivering from a difficulty, or to aid in completing a design or task.

The god of learning and of light
Would want a god himself to help him out .

Swift.

-- To help over , to enable to surmount; as, to help one over an obstacle. -- To help to , to supply with; to furnish with; as, to help one to soup. -- To help up , to help (one) to get up; to assist in rising, as after a fall, and the like. "A man is well holp up that trusts to you." Shak.

Syn. -- To aid; assist; succor; relieve; serve; support; sustain; befriend. -- To Help , Aid , Assist . These words all agree in the idea of affording relief or support to a person under difficulties. Help turns attention especially to the source of relief. If I fall into a pit, I call for help ; and he who helps me out does it by an act of his own. Aid turns attention to the other side, and supposes coöperation on the part of him who is relieved; as, he aided me in getting out of the pit; I got out by the aid of a ladder which he brought. Assist has a primary reference to relief afforded by a person who "stands by" in order to relieve. It denotes both help and aid . Thus, we say of a person who is weak, I assisted him upstairs, or, he mounted the stairs by my assistance . When help is used as a noun, it points less distinctively and exclusively to the source of relief, or, in other words, agrees more closely with aid . Thus we say, I got out of a pit by the help of my friend.

Help intransitive verb To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.

A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person.

Garth.

To help out , to lend aid; to bring a supply.

Help noun [ Anglo-Saxon help ; akin to Dutch hulp , German hülfe , hilfe , Icelandic hjālp , Swedish hjelp , Danish hielp . See Help , transitive verb ]

1. Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.

Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man.

Ps. lx. 11.

God is . . . a very present help in trouble.

Ps. xlvi. 1.

Virtue is a friend and a help to nature.

South.

2. Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.

3. A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.

4. Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman. [ Local, U. S.]

Helper noun One who, or that which, helps, 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.

Helpful adjective Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

Heavens make our presence and our practices
Pleasant and helpful to him!

Shak.

-- Help"ful*ly , adverb -- Help"ful*ness , noun Milton.

Helpless adjective
1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.

How shall I then your helpless fame defend?

Pope.

2. Beyond help; irremediable.

Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body.

Milton.

3. Bringing no help; unaiding. [ Obsolete]

Yet since the gods have been
Helpless foreseers of my plagues.

Chapman.

4. Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of . [ R.]

Helpless of all that human wants require.

Dryden.

-- Help"less*ly , adverb -- Help"less*ness , noun

Helpmate noun [ A corruption of the " help meet for him" of Genesis ii. 18. Fitzedward Hall. ] A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.

In Minorca the ass and the hog are common helpmates , and are yoked together in order to turn up the land.

Pennant.

A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson.

Macaulay.

Helpmeet noun [ See Helpmate .] A wife; a helpmate.

The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet , caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman.

J. H. Newman.

Helter-skelter adverb [ An onomat...poetic word. Confer German holter-polter , Dutch holder de bolder .] In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose; irregularly. [ Colloq.]

Helter-skelter have I rode to thee.

Shak.

A wistaria vine running helter-skelter across the roof.

J. C. Harris.

Helve noun [ Middle English helve , helfe , Anglo-Saxon hielf , helf , hylf , confer Old High German halb ; and also English halter , helm of a rudder.]
1. The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.

2. (Iron Working) (a) The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer. (b) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

Helve transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Helved ; present participle & verbal noun Helving .] To furnish with a helve, as an ax.

Helvetian adjective Same as Helvetic . -- noun A Swiss; a Switzer.

Helvetic adjective [ Latin Helveticus , from Helvetii the Helvetii.] Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.

Helvine, Helvite noun [ Latin helvus of a light bay color.] (Min.) A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.

Hem (hĕm) pron. [ Middle English , from Anglo-Saxon him , heom , dative plural of. hē he. See He , They .] Them [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Hem interj. An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm .

Cough or cry hem , if anybody come.

Shak.

Hem noun An utterance or sound of the voice, hem or hm , often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention. "His morning hems ." Spectator.

Hem intransitive verb [ √15. See Hem , interj. ] To make the sound expressed by the word hem ; hence, to hesitate in speaking. " Hem , and stroke thy beard." Shak.

Hem noun [ Anglo-Saxon hem , border, margin; confer Fries. hämel , Prov. German hammel hem of mire or dirt.]
1. The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen it and prevent raveling.

2. Border; edge; margin. " Hem of the sea." Shak.

3. A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.

Hem transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hemmed ; present participle & verbal noun Hemming .]
1. To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of. Wordsworth.

2. To border; to edge

All the skirt about
Was hemmed with golden fringe.

Spenser.

To hem about , around , or in , to inclose and confine; to surround; to environ. "With valiant squadrons round about to hem ." Fairfax. " Hemmed in to be a spoil to tyranny." Daniel. -- To hem out , to shut out. "You can not hem me out of London." J. Webster.

Hema- Same as Hæma- .

Hemachate noun [ Latin haemachates ; Greek a"i^ma blood + ... agate.] (Min.) A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.

Hemachrome noun Same as Hæmachrome .

Hemacite noun [ Greek a"i^ma blood.] A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.

Hemadrometer, Hemadromometer noun [ Hema- + Greek ... course + - meter .] (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.

Hemadrometry, Hemadromometry noun (Physiol.) The act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; hæmotachometry.

Hemadynamics noun [ Hema- + dynamics .] (Physiol.) The principles of dynamics in their application to the blood; that part of science which treats of the motion of the blood.

Hemadynamometer noun [ Hema- + dynamometr .] (Physiol.) An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer .

Hemal adjective [ Greek a"i^ma blood.] Relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to neural .

» As applied to vertebrates, hemal is the same as ventral , the heart and great blood vessels being on the ventral, and the central nervous system on the dorsal, side of the vertebral column.

Hemal arch (Anat.) , the ventral arch in a segment of the spinal skeleton, formed by vertebral processes or ribs.

Hemaphæin noun Same as Hæmaphæin .

Hemapophysis noun ; plural Hemapophyses . [ New Latin See Hæma- , and Apophysis .] (Anat.) The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib. Owen. -- Hem`a*po*phys"i*al adjective

Hemastatic, Hemastatical adjective & noun Same as Hemostatic .

Hemastatics noun (Physiol.) Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.

Hematachometer noun Same as Hæmatachometer .

Hematein noun [ Greek ..., ..., blood.] (Chemistry) A reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, C ₁₆ H ₁₂ O ₆ , got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.

Hematemesis noun [ New Latin , from Greek a"i^ma , a"i`matos , blood + ... a vomiting, from ... to vomit.] (Medicine) A vomiting of blood.

Hematherm noun [ Greek a"i^ma blood + ... warm.] (Zoology) A warm- blooded animal. [ R.]

Hemathermal adjective (Zoology) Warm-blooded; hematothermal. [ R]