Word Meanings - HELMET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver. (more info) origin; cf. G. helm, akin to AS. & OS. helm, D. helm, helmet, Icel. hjalmr, Sw. hjelm, Dan. hielm, Goth. hilms; and prob. from the root

Additional info about word: HELMET

A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver. (more info) origin; cf. G. helm, akin to AS. & OS. helm, D. helm, helmet, Icel. hjalmr, Sw. hjelm, Dan. hielm, Goth. hilms; and prob. from the root of AS. helan to hide, to hele; cf. also Lith. szalmas, Russ. shleme,

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• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• BEAVER
  An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor. Note: It has palmated hind feet, and a broad, flat tail. It is remarkable for its ingenuity in constructing its valued for its fur, and for the material called castor, obtained from two small bags in the
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• SALLET; SALLETING
  Salad. Shak.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• ILLUSTROUS
  Without luster.
• SALLET
  A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century. Then he must have a sallet wherewith his head may be saved. Latimer. (more info) caelata, fr. caelare, caelatum, to engrave in relief. So
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• ILLUSTRIOUS
  1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
• DEFENSIVELY
  On the defensive.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• BEAVERTEEN
  A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• ORIGINANT
  Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• ILLUSTRATIVELY
  By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• ILLUSTRATIVE
  1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
• MORION
  A kind of open helmet, without visor or beaver, and somewhat resembling a hat. A battered morion on his brow. Sir W. Scott.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• INDEFENSIVE
  Defenseless. The sword awes the indefensive villager. Sir T. Herbert.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• DISCOVERY
  1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
• IRRECOVERABLE
  Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.