A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm.

A natural family of lizards, including the only known venomous lizards.

A slave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf.

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

The type genus of the Helotiaceae.

The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen.

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

One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.

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

a quantity of food served as part of a meal.

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

A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.

A wife; a helpmate.

In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose; irregularly.

To furnish with a helve, as an ax.

Same as Helvetic. A Swiss; a Switzer.

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.

A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.

A genus of plants consisting of one species; a dwarf creeping mat-forming evergreen herb.

To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of.

A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.

Same as Haemachrome.

A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.

An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.

The act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; haemotachometry.

The principles of dynamics in their application to the blood; that part of science which treats of the motion of the blood.

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 haemomanometer.

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.

Same as Haemaphaein.

The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib.

Same as Hemostatic.

Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.

Same as Haematachometer.

A reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.

A vomiting of blood.

A warm-blooded animal.

Warm-blooded; hematothermal.

A medicine designed to improve the condition of the blood.

Hematoxylin.

Any substance, such as an iron salt or organic compound containing iron, which when ingested tends to increase the hemoglobin contents of the blood.

A form of hemoglobinometer.

Relating to the measurement of the amount of hematin or hemoglobin contained in blood, or other fluids.

A red consisting of silica, borax, and soda, fused with oxide of copper and iron, and used in enamels, mosaics, etc.

An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown.

Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.

A tumor filled with blood.

The cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to Hematotherma.

See Hemoglobin.

Resembling blood.

A crystalline or amorphous pigment, free from iron, formed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin. When present in the corpora lutea it is called haemolutein.

The science which treats of the blood.

The lysis of erythrocytes in the blood with the release of hemoglobin.

A localised leakage of blood from the blood vessels into nearby tissues, usually confined within a tissue or organ; especially, a local swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin, which may clot and discolor the affected area.

Same as hemophilia; -- an obsolete term.

The hematin of blood.

Sanguification; the conversion of chyle into blood. The arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in general; haematogenesis.

The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.

Warm-blooded.

Haematoxylin.

Passage of urine mingled with blood; blood in the urine.

One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.

A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.

A neuropterous insect of the genus Hemerobius, and allied genera.

Of relating to the hemerobians.

A natural family of insects including the brown lacewings.

one of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Lily family Liliaceae, but not widely accepted; it includes the genus Hemerocallis.

A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.

A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.

Same as Hemialbumose.

An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.

Anaesthesia upon one side of the body.

An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.

A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left.

One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.

A lateral half of the cerebrum.

See Semiglutin.

A pain that affects only one side of the head.

Hemicranis.

A half circle; a semicircle.

Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.

The lesser third.

Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses.

The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.

Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron.

The property of crystallizing hemihedrally.

A solid hemihedrally derived. The tetrahedron is a hemihedron.

Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full number of planes.

Having half as many (three) carboxyl radicals as mellitic acid; -- said of an organic acid.

Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis.

Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.

Having the two ends modified with unlike planes; -- said of a crystal.

A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.

A measure of half a sextary.

A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.

A defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at.

Same as Monoclinic.

A product of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter.

A palsy that affects one side only of the body.

Hemiplegia.

Any bird of the genus Turnix. Various species inhabit Asia, Africa, and Australia.

An insoluble, proteid substance, described by Sch/tzenberger, formed when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone.

One of the Hemiptera.

An order of hexapod insects having a jointed proboscis, including four sharp stylets (mandibles and maxillae), for piercing. In many of the species (Heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different from the others.

One of the Hemiptera; an hemipter.

Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera.

A natural family of fish including the halfbeaks, marine and freshwater fishes closely related to the flying fishes but not able to glide.

To divide along the mesial plane.

A division along the mesial plane; also, one of the parts so divided.

A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.

A half of a spheroid.

Resembling, or approximating to, a hemisphere in form.

A half spherule.

Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.

Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.

Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart.

See Semitone.

That which is hemitropal in construction; (Crystallog.) a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.

Turned half round; half inverted.

Twin composition in crystals.