2, That which gives help.
Though these contrivances increase the power,yet they proportionally protract the time ; thatwhich by such helps one man may do in a hundreddays, may be done by the immediate strength ofa hundred men in one day. Wilkins.
Virtue is a friend and an help to nature; but itis vice and luxury that destroys it, and the dis-eases of intemperance are the natural product ofthe sins of intemperance. South.
Another help St. Paul himself affords us towardsthe attaining the true meaning contained in hisepistles. Locke.
That which forwards or promotes.Coral is in use as an help to the teeth of chil-dren. Bacon .
4. Remedy.
There is no help for it, but he must be taughtaccordingly to comply with the faulty way ofwriting. Holder on Speech.
He'lper. n. s. [from help.']
I. An assistant; an auxiliary ; an aider;one that helps or assists.
There was not any left, nor any helper for Israel .
2 Kings.
We ought to receive such, that we might befellow helpers to the truth. 3 John, viii.
It is impossible for that man to despair who re-members that his helper is omnipotent. ;
Taylor’s Rule of Living Holy.
% One that administers remedy.
Compassion, the mother of tears, is not alwaysa mere idle spectator, but an helper oftentimes ofevils. More.
3. One that supplies with any thing want-ed : with to.
Heaven
Hath brought me up to be your daugnter’s dower,As it hath fated her to be my motive,
And helper to a husband. Shakesp.
4. A supernumerary servant.
T live in the corner of a vast unfurnished house :my family consists of a steward, a groom, a helperin the stable, a footman, and an old maid. Swift.
Helpful. adj. [help and full.]
1. Useful: that which gives assistance.
Let’s fight with gentle words,
’Till time lend friends, and friends their helpfulswords. ^ Shakesp.
He orders all the succours which they bring ;The helpful and the good about him run,
And form an army. Dry den.
2. Wholesome; salutary.
A skilful chymist can as well, by separation ofvisible elements, draw helpful medicines out ofpoison, as poison out of the most healthful herbs.
Raleigh.
He lpless, adj. [from help.]
1. Wanting power to succour one’s self.
One dire shot
Close by the board the prince’s main-mast bore ;All three now helpless by each other lie. Dryden.
Let our enemies rage and persecute the* poorand the helpless ; but let it be our glory to be pureand peaceable. ^ Rogers.
2. Wanting support or assistance.
How shall I then your helpless fame defend ?Twill then be infamy to seem your friend. Pope.3* Irremediable ; admitting no help.
Such helpless harms it’s better hidden keep,Than rip up grief, where it may not avail. Spenser.
4. Unsupplied; void: with of. This isunusual, perhaps improper.
Naked he lies, and ready to expire,
Helpless of all that human wants require. Dryden.
H e'lplessly . adv. [from helpless .] With-out ability ; without succour.
He' lplessness. ii. s. [from helpless ] IWant of ability ; want of succour.Helter-skelter, adv. [As Skinnerfancies, from jvolprep pceabo the dark-ness of hell; hell, says he, being a place
of confusion.] In a hurry ; without or-der ; tumultuously.
Sir John, I am thy Pistol , and thy friend ;
And helter-skelter have I rode to England,
And tidings do I bring. Shakesp.
He had no sooner turned his back but they wereat it helter-skelter, throwing books at one another’sheads. L’ Estrange.
Helve, n. s. [Jjelpe, Sax .] The handleof an axe.
The slipping of an axe from the helve, wherebyanother is siain, was the work of God himself.
To Helve, v. a. [from the noun.] To fitwith a helve or handle.
1. The edge of a garment doubled andsewed to keep the threads from spread-ing.
Rowlers must be made of even cloth, white andgentle, without hem, seam, or thread hanging by.
liueman.
2. [Hemmen, Dut.] The noise uttered bya sudden and violent expiration of thebreath.
I would try if 1 could cry hem, and have him.
Shakesp.
He loves to clear his pipes in good air and isnot a little pleased with any one waio takes noticeof the strength which he still exerts in iiis morning
[ hems. Addison.
3. Interj. Hem ! [Lat.]
To Hem. v. a.
1. To close the edge of cloth by a hem ordouble border sewed together.
2. To border; to edge.
All the skirt about
Was hem’d with golden fringe. Fairy Q.
3. To enclose ; to environ ; to confine ; toshut: perhaps always with a particle:as, in , about , round.
Along the shoar of silver streaming Thames,Whose rushy bank, the which his river hems Spew.
So of either side, stretching itself in a narrowlength, was it hemmed in by woody hills, as if in-deed nature had meant therein to make a placefor beholders. Sidney.
What lets us then the great Jerusalem With valiant squadrons round about to hem ?Fairf.
Why, Neptune, hast thou made us stand alone,Divided from the world for this, say they ;Hemm’d in to be a spoil to tyranny,
Leaving affliction hence no way to fly ? Daniel.
I hurry me in haste away,
And find his honour in a pound,
Hemm’d by a triple circle round,
Chequer’d with ribbons, blue and green Pope.
To Hem. v.n. [hemmen, Dut.] To utter anoise by violent expulsion of the breath.
He micrany. n.s, \jifMtrv half, and KgUVIOV Ithe skull or head.] A pain that afreetsonly one part of the head at a timc.Qidn.
He'micycle. n.s. [ijuiuux*©-.] A halfround.
He'mina. n.s. An ancient measure : nowused in medicine to signify about tenounces in measure. Quinci/.
He'miplegy. n. s. [?^i a-v halfrandto strike or seize.] A palsy, or any ner-vous affection relating thereunto, thatseizes one side at a time; some partialdisorder of the nervous system.
HEMISPHERE, n. s. [ipicnpaijacr; hemi-sphere, Fr.] The half of a globe whenit is supposed to be cut through its centrein the plane of one of its greatest circles.
That place is earth, the seat of man : that Wi th’ other hemisphcrl^^
His (lay, which else, as 1Night would invade.
A hill
Of Paradise, the highest from whose topThe hemisphere of earth, in clearest ken
Stretch’d out to th’ amplest reach of prospe|d^*[
The sun is more powerful in the northernsphere, and in the apogeum ; for therein hisis slower. !V
In open prospect nothing bounds our ey e >Until the earth seems join’d unto the sky iSo in this hemisjihere our utmost viewIs only hounded by our king and you.
H e m i s p h e'r i c a l. \ adj. [fromHemisphe'rick. / sphere .] **
round; containing half a globe. ^ ct
The thin film of water swells above the s, fr g ti'of the water it swims on, and commonlytutes hemispherical bodies with it. 0 [$fl
A pyrites, placed in the cavity of anotherhemispherick figure, in much the samean acorn ill its cup. Jyooa^
He'mistick. n.s. J hemist lC
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He broke off in the hemistich, or nihbverse ; but seised, as it were, with a di vl ppf’he made up the latter part of the hemistich
He'mlock. n. s. Q^emloc, Sax .] n is ;
The leaves are cut into many minutethe petals of the flower are oifid, b^j^y t*®and unequal: the flower is succeededshort channeled seeds. One sort isused in medicine, though it is noxious,hemlock of the ancients, which was sue 1poison, is generally supposed different'
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He was met even now, $ Sf
Crown’d with rank fumiter and f’urroW-' v ^ j J ea r 'With Imrdocks, hemlock. Shakesp- * jiisjj
We cannot with certainty affirm, that lcan be nou/ished by wood or stones, 0 jjjck *men will be poisoned by hemlock.
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HEMORRHOIDS, n. s. [S‘>°# „,r>morrhoids, Fr.] The piles ; e S“f'I got the hemorrhoids. '''
He'morrhage. 7He'moruiiagy. jlent flux of blood.
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Of leeches, spouting hemorrhoidal b* pilt-
HEMP. n. s. [Jfcaiep, Sax .cannabis.] A fibrous plant 0coarse linen and ropes are ma
It hath digitated leuvesopposite‘jj®, w ale ‘*tile flowers have no visible petal* 5 ; u
female in difl’erent plants. It* bafkcordage and cloth. , free.,
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Hemp Agrimony, n
I he coimnun hemp agrwflitches and sides ot rivers.
He'mpen. adj. [from hemphemp. , - r
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