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Salade :: Salade (n.) A helmet. See Sallet.

Armet :: Armet (n.) A kind of helmet worn in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries..

Vermeologist :: Vermeologist (n.) One who treats of vermes, or worms; a helminthologist..

Oxtongue :: Oxtongue (n.) A name given to several plants, from the shape and roughness of their leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss, and Helminthia echioides, both European herbs..

Helminthic :: Helminthic (n.) A vermifuge; an anthelmintic.

Trick :: Trick (a.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours..

Helmet :: Helmet (n.) A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.

Vermes :: Vermes (n. pl.) An extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnaeus and his followers..

Helm :: Helm (n.) The place or office of direction or administration.

Whelm :: Whelm (v. t.) Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows..

Hermaphrodite :: Hermaphrodite (n.) An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helmi

Water-logged :: Water-logged (a.) Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm..

Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer..

Spell :: Spell (v. t.) To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman..

Tester :: Tester (n.) A headpiece; a helmet.

Helminthoid :: Helminthoid (a.) Wormlike; vermiform.

Ventail :: Ventail (n.) That part of a helmet which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor..

Helmet :: Helmet (n.) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver..

Break :: Break (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking..

Whelm :: Whelm (v. t.) To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.

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