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Tack :: Tack (v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course..

Sconce :: Sconce (p. p.) A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.

Plunge :: Plunge (n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties..

Pinkroot :: Pinkroot (n.) An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia Anthelmia).

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

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

Ophthalmometer :: Ophthalmometer (n.) An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye, by which their curvature can be ascertained..

Anthelmintic :: Anthelmintic (n.) An anthelmintic remedy.

Vituperate :: Vituperate (v. t.) To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

Vitellogene :: Vitellogene (n.) A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths..

Nemertina :: Nemertina (n. pl.) An order of helminths usually having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; -- called also Nemertea, Nemertida, and Rhynchocoela..

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee..

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

Visor :: Visor (n.) A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it..

Dismay :: Dismay (v. t.) Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

Alee :: Alee (adv.) On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side..

Helminthic :: Helminthic (a.) Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms..

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..

Proboscidifera :: Proboscidifera (n. pl.) A subdivision of the taenioglossate gastropods, including the fig-shells (Pyrula), the helmet shells (Cassis), the tritons, and allied genera..

Whelming :: Whelming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whel.

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