Webster's Dictionary 1828

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HELD

HELD, preterit tense and participle passive of hold. A court was held in Westminster hall. At a council held on the first of January.

785

HELE

HELE, verb transitive [Latin celo.] To hide.

786

HELIACAL

HELI'ACAL, adjective [Latin heliacus; Gr. the sun.]Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it. The heliacal rising of a star, is when, after being in conjunction wit...

787

HELIACALLY

HELI'ACALLY, adverb A star rises heliacally when it emerges from the sun's light, so as to be visible. [See the preceding word.]

788

HELICAL

HEL'ICAL, adjective [Gr. a scroll, or spiral body.]Spiral; winding; moving round.

789

HELICITE

HEL'ICITE, noun [See Helix.] Fossil remains of the helix, a shell.

790

HELING

HE'LING, noun [from hele, obsolete; Latin celo.] The covering of the roof of a building; written also hilling. [Not used in the U.States.]

791

HELIOCENTRIC

HELIOCENT'RIC, adjective [Gr. the sun, and center.]The heliocentric place of a planet, is the place of the ecliptic in which the planet would appear to a spectator at the center...

792

HELIOLATER

HELIOL'ATER, noun [Gr. the sun, and to worship.]A worship of the sun.

793

HELIOLATRY

HELIOL'ATRY, noun [Gr. the sun, and service, worship.]The worship of the sun, a branch of Sabianism.

794

HELIOMETER

HELIOM'ETER, noun [Gr. the sun, and to measure.] An instrument for measuring with exactness the diameter of the heavenly bodies. It is called also astrometer.

795

HELIOSCOPE

HE'LIOSCOPE, noun [Gr. the sun, and to view.] A sort of telescope fitted for viewing the sun without pain or injury to the eyes, as when made with colored glasses, or glasses bl...

796

HELIOSTATE

HE'LIOSTATE, noun [Gr. the sun.] An instrument by which a sunbeam may be steadily directed to one spot.

797

HELIOTROPE

HE'LIOTROPE, noun [Gr. the sun, and to turn.]1. Among the ancients, an instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and the equinoctial line.2. A genus ...

798

HELISPHERIC

HELISPHER'ICHELISPHER'ICAL, adjective [helix and sphere.] Spiral. The helispherical line is the rhomb line in navigation, so called because on the globe it winds round the pole ...

799

HELISPHERICAL

HELISPHER'ICAL, a. [helix and sphere.] Spiral. The helispherical line is the rhomb line in navigation, so called because on the globe it winds round the pole spirally, coming ne...

800

HELIX

HE'LIX, noun [Gr. a winding.] A spiral line; a winding; or something that is spiral; as a winding staircase in architecture, or a caulicule or little volute under the flowers of...

801

HELL

HELL, noun1. The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death. Matthew 10:28. Luke 12:5.Sin is hell begun, as religion is heaven anticipated.2. The place of the dead,...

802

HELL-CONFOUNDING

HELL-CONFOUND'ING, adjective Defeating the infernal powers.

803

HELLBLACK

HELL'BLACK, adjective Black as hell.

804

HELLEBORE

HEL'LEBORE, noun [Latin helleborus.] The name of several plants of different genera, the most important of which are the black hellebore Christmas rose, or Christmas flower, of ...

805

HELLEBORISM

HEL'LEBORISM, noun A medicinal preparation of hellebore.

806

HELLENIAN

HELLE'NIANHELLEN'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece, so called from Hellas in Greece, or form Hellen.

807

HELLENIC

HELLEN'IC, a. Pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece, so called from Hellas in Greece, or form Hellen.

808

HELLENISM

HEL'LENISM, noun A phrase in the idiom, genius or construction of the Greek language.

809

HELLENIST

HEL'LENIST, noun A Grecian Jew; a Jew who used the Greek language.1. One skilled in the Greek language.

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HELLENISTIC

HELLENIS'TIC, adjective Pertaining to the Hellenists. The hellenistic language was the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in Egypt and other countries, where the Greek l...