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3. A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.

4. That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.; as: (a) (Chem.) The upper part of a retort. Boyle. (b) (Bot.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon. (c) (Zoˆl.) A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.

Helmet beetle (Zoˆl.), a leaf- eating beetle of the family ChrysomelidÊ, having a short, broad, and flattened body. Many species are known. -- Helmet shell (Zoˆl.), one of many species of tropical marine univalve shells belonging to Cassis and allied genera. Many of them are large and handsome; several are used for cutting as cameos, and hence are called cameo shells. See King conch. -- Helmet shrike (Zoˆl.), an African wood shrike of the genus Prionodon, having a large crest.

Hel`met*ed (?), a. Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet-shaped part; galeate.

Hel"met-shaped` (&?;), a. Shaped like a helmet; galeate. See Illust. of Galeate.

Hel"minth (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, a worm.] (Zoˆl.) An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.

Hel*min"tha*gogue (?), n. [Gr. &?; a worm + &?; to drive.] (Med.) A vermifuge.

||Hel*min"thes (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, a worm.] (Zoˆl.) One ||of the grand divisions or branches of the animal kingdom. It is a ||large group including a vast number of species, most of which are ||parasitic. Called also Enthelminthes, Enthelmintha.

The following classes are included, with others of less importance: Cestoidea (tapeworms), Trematodea (flukes, etc.), Turbellaria (planarians), Acanthocephala (thornheads), Nematoidea (roundworms, trichina, gordius), Nemertina (nemerteans). See Plathelminthes, and Nemathelminthes.

||Hel`min*thi"a*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; to suffer from worms, fr. ||&?;, &?;, a worm.] (Med.) A disease in which worms are present in ||some part of the body.

Hel*min"thic (?), a. [Cf. F. helminthique.] Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms. -- n. A vermifuge; an anthelmintic.

Hel*min"thite (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, a worm.] (Geol.) One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.

Hel*min"thoid (?), a. [Gr. &?;, &?;, a worm + -oid.] Wormlike; vermiform.

{ Hel*min`tho*log"ic (?), Hel*min`tho*log"ic*al, } a. [Cf. F. helminthologique.] Of or pertaining to helminthology.

Hel`min*thol"o*gist (?), n. [Cf. F. helminthologiste.] One versed in helminthology.

Hel`min*thol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, a worm + -logy: cf. F. helminthologie.] The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms.

Helm"less (?), a. 1. Destitute of a helmet.

2. Without a helm or rudder. Carlyle.

Helms"man (?), n.; pl. Helmsmen (&?;). The man at the helm; a steersman.

Helm"wind` (?), n. A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm. [Prov. Eng.]

He"lot (?; 277), n. [L. Helotes, Hilotae, pl., fr. Gr. 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 perh. 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.

He"lot*ism (?), n. The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery.

He"lot*ry (?), n. The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen. "The Helotry of Mammon." Macaulay.

Help (hlp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Helped (hlpt) (Obs. imp. Holp (hlp), p. p. Holpen (hl"p'n)); p. pr. & vb. n. Helping.] [AS. helpan; akin to OS. helpan, D. helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hjlpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan. hielpe, Goth. hilpan; cf. Lith. szelpti, and Skr. 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.