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'-■'-doomed, adj. [hell and doom.]Consigned to hell.

r.^ ru ' reckon’st thou th yselfwitli spirits of heav’niJtt-dojm’d! and breath’*! defiance here and scorntjhere 1 reign’d king ? Milton

e Ll-governed. adj. Directed by hell.

* Larth gape open wide and eat him quick,

A s thou dost swallow up this good king’s blood.a, ch his hell-goverrid arm hath butcher’d. Shak.

EIj L-hated. adj. Abhorred like hell.

(r ?, a ck dd I toss these treasons to thy head,

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the hell-hated lie o’erwhelm thy heart. Shah.

^L-haunted. adj. [hell and haunt.

punted by the devil.

* *>crce Osmond clos’d me in the bleeding bark,

bid me stand exposed to the bleak winds,° Ur *d to the fate of this hell-haunted grove. Dryi,

I E bL-HouND. n.s. [felle Jmnb, Sax ]Dog of hell.

* * r oni fortli the kennel of thy womb hath crepthell-hound that doth hunt us all to death. Shah.

the hell-hounds with superior speedreach’d the dame, and, fast’ning onher side,ie ground with issuing streams of purple dy’d.

Dryden.

gent of hell.

I call’d

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\JJ' e U-hounds t° lick up tlie draff, and filtli,

0 "‘ch man’s polluting sin with taint had shedtig "'hat was pure. Milton.

j *4 'Kite. n. s. [hell and kite.] Kite ofjJ e rt\al breed. The term hell prefixedany word notes detestation.

W), 1(1 y° u sa y all ? Whatall? Oh, hdf-kitc! all ?

. L at > a 'l my pretty chickens, and their dam,

I Ip'. tle fell swoop ? Shakcsp.Macbeth.

a.'-Eeore. n. s. [hclleborus, Lat.jJj t; j ris ttrtas flower.

a '-Shore White, n. s. [veratrum, Lat.],T( nt-

li'' e s!i* te are S reat doubts wlictlier any of its speymEV T e " lc true hellebore of the ancients. Miller.

i,i . Enism. n.s. A Greok

Ainsworth.

I, ^ ' S H. adj. [from hell.]

(?'■ from hell; belonging to hell.

Mty celestial or infernal spirit of love, or°1 ler heavenly or hellish title thou list toc »Hn ,0 . r effects of both I find in myself, haveV4 trt SSI °” ' Ge - Sidney.

jViv. and triumph fo the Son of God,t 1 to er ' n § ' lls great duel, not of arms,

‘ }L . v anqui s h by wisdom hellish wiles. Milton.Vj c i m g the qualities of hell; infernal;detestable.

ihafRefits shall ever allay that diobolical ran-Hw ill f ‘ ern ' ents in some hellish breasts, but that, Uilltl out at its foul mouth in slander.South.

adv. [from hellish .] Infer-‘ wickedly; detestably.

"Ness. n. s. [from hellish .] Wick-

a-i., 6 * 8 • abhorred qualities.

$4-,, ^4D.arfii.[from hell.] Toward hell.

V*°’er X i l | tll y. care 'I' 13 saSle sheep to place

, lll e pit, and hellward turn tlieir face. Pope,by (|[p n °tes defence: as, Eadhelm hap-; Sigh elm victorious defence;%f. e J ,n eminent defence ; like Amyn-Boelius among the Greeks.

,)q Gibson's Camden.

V , *" 5 [helm, Sax. from hclan to co-^ oo H^tect.]

a er ’ n g for the head in war ; a hel-A^onon ; an headpiece.

^ ^' s ^ anners * n our noiseless land!

jj* d helm the slayer begins ills threats,^sthena i Shakesp.

8 * a ys hard load upon his helm, Dryd.

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2. The part of a coat of arms that bearsthe crest.

More might be added of helms, crests, mantles,and supporters. Camden s Remains.

3. The upper part of the retort.

The vulgar chemists themselves pretend to beable, by repeated cohobations, and other fit ope-rations, to make the distilled parts of a concretebring its own caput mortuum over the helm. Boyle.

4. [))elma, Sax.] The steerage; the rudder.

They did not leave the helm in storms ;And such they are make happy states. BenJonson.

More in prosperity is reason tostThan ships in storms, their helm and anchors lost.

Denham.

Fair occasion shews the springing gale,

And int'rest guides the helm, and "honour swellsthe sail, Prior.

5. The station of government.

I may be wrong in the means ; but that is noobjection against the design : let those at the helmcontrive it better. Swift.

6. In the following line it is difficult todetermine whether steersman or defenderis intended : 1 think steersman.

You slander

The helms o’ th’ state, who care for you like fa-thers,

When you curse them as enemies. Shahesp

To Helm. v. a. [from the noun.] Toguide; to conduct. Uanmer.

The very stream of his life, and the business hehath helmed, must give him a better proclamation.

Shakesv.

He'lmed. adj. [from helm.] Furnished

with a head-piece. „

The helmed cherubim

Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display’d.

Milton.

He'lmet. n. s. [Probably a diminutive ofhelm.] A helm ; ahead-piece ; armourfor the head.

I saw him down ; thrice up again, and fighting;From helmet to the spur all bleeding o’er. Shakesp.

Sev’n darts afre thrown at once, and some re-bound

From his bright shield, some on his helmet sound.

Dryden.

Heemi'nthick. adj. [from Re-lating to worms. Diet.

To HELP. v. a. preter. helped, or holp;part, helped, or holpen. [hilpan, Goth.J 3 elpan, Sax.]

1. To assist; to support; to aid.

Let us work as valiant men behoves ;

For boldest hearts good fortune helpetli out.F airf.

O Lord, make haste to help me. Psalms.

God helped him against the Philistines. 2 C-hron.

They helped them in all tilings witli silver andgold. 1 Esdr.

A man reads his prayers out of a hook, as ameans to help his understanding and direct his ex-pressions. StillingJleet.

2. It has, in familiar language, the particleout, which seems to have meant, origi-nally, out of a difficulty.

This he conceives not hard to bring about,

If all of you should join to help him out. Dryden.

What I offer is so far from doing any diskinonessto the cause these gentlemen are engaged in, thatit does them a real service, and helps them outwitli tlie main tiling whereat they stuck. Woodui.

The God of learning and of light,

Would want a god himself to help him out. Swift.

3. 'Fo raise by help : with up.

Woe to him that is alone when he faileth ; forhe hath not another to help him up Eccl. iv, 10.

4. To enable to surmount: with over.

Wherever they are at a stand, help them pre-sently over tlie difficulty without any rebuke.

Locke.

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5. To remove by help: with off.

Having never learned any laudable manual art,they have recourse to those foolish or ill ways inuse, to help off their time. Locke.

6. To free from pain or vexation.

Help and ease them, but by no means bemoanthem. Locke.

I, To cure ; to heal: with of Obsolete.

Love doth to her eyes repair.

To help him of his blindness. Shakesp.

8. It is used commonly before the disease.

The true calamus helps coughs. Gerard.

9. To remedy ; to change for the better.

Cease to lament for that thou can’st not help;And study help for that which thou lament’st.

Shakesp.

10. To prevent; to hinder.

Those few who reside among us, only becausethey cannot help it. ’ Swift,

If they take offence when we give none, it is athing we cannot help, and therefore the wholeblame must lie upon them. Sanders.

It is a high point of ill nature to make sportwith any man’s imperfections that lie cannothetn. > VKstrange.

, Those dosing skies may still continue bright;But who can help it, if you’ll make it night. Dryd.

She, betwixt her modesty and pride,

Her wishes, which she could not help, would hide.

Dryder .«.

It is reckoned ill manners for men to quarrelupon difference in opinion, because that is a thingwhich no man can help in himself. Swift.

II. To forbear; to avoid.

lie cannot help believing, that such things hesaw and heard. Atterbury.

I cannot help remarking the resemblance betwixthim and our author in qualities, fame, and for-tune. Pope.

12 . To promote ; to forward.

And they helped forward the afflictive, Zcch.

If you make the earth narrower at the bottomthan at the top, in fashion of a sugar-loaf reversed,it will help the experiment. Bacon .

13. To help to. To supply with; to fur-nish with.

Whom they would help to a kingdom, thosereign; and whom again they would, they dis-place. 1 Mac. viii. 13.

The man that is now with Tiresias can help himto his oxen again. L’ Estrange.

14. To present at table.

In plenty starving, tantaliz’d in state,

Anti complaisantiy help'd to all I hate;

Treated, caress’d, and tir’d, I take my leave. Pope.

To Help. v. n.

1. To contribute assistance.

Sir, how come it you

Have holp to make this rescue ? Shakesp.

Discreet followers and servants help much toreputation Bacon .

Rennet’s grave look was a pretence,

And Danby’s matchless impudence

help'd to support tlie knave. Dryden.

A generous present helps to persuade as well asan agreeable person. Garth .

2, To bring a supply.

Some, wanting the talent to write, made it theircare that the actors should help out where themuses failed. Rymer.

Help, n . s. [from the verb ; hulpe, Dut.]1. Assistance ; aid ; support; succour.Muleasses, despairing to recover the city, hard-ly escaped his enemies nands by the good help ofliis uncle. Knolles.

He may be beholden to experience and acquirednotions, where he thinks he has not the least helpfrom them. Locke.

So great is the stupidity of some of those, thatthey may have no sense of the help administeredto them. Smatridgc.

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