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Helmet   /hˈɛlmət/   Listen
noun
Helmet  n.  
1.
(Armor) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet.
2.
(Her.) The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.
3.
A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.
4.
That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.; as:
(a)
(Chem.) The upper part of a retort.
(b)
(Bot.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
(c)
(Zool.) A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.
Helmet beetle (Zool.), a leaf-eating beetle of the family Chrysomelidae, having a short, broad, and flattened body. Many species are known.
Helmet shell (Zool.), one of many species of tropical marine univalve shells belonging to Cassis and allied genera. Many of them are large and handsome; several are used for cutting as cameos, and hence are called cameo shells. See King conch.
Helmet shrike (Zool.), an African wood shrike of the genus Prionodon, having a large crest.





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"Helmet" Quotes from Famous Books



... and of a sooth, had not God Himself so willed it both had died there; so mighty were their strokes that by right no man should escape alive. Had it been midnight, and dark as night is wont to be, yet had ye seen the grass and the flowers by the light of the sparks that flew so thick from helmet and sword and fell upon the earth. The smith that wrought their weapons I say he wrought them not amiss, he merited a fairer reward than Arthur ever gave to any man ...
— The Romance of Morien • Jessie L. Weston
... wopped 'im 'cause 'e couldn't serve us all. It was "Din! Din! Din! You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been? You put some juldee in it Or I'll marrow you this minute, [Footnote: Hit you] If you don't fill up my helmet, Gunga Din!" ...
— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter
... on the present occasion, in arms worth a whole treasury. His shield had a border of large pearls; his mail was of gold; on his helmet was a ruby as big as a chestnut; and his horse was covered with a cloth all over golden leopards.[5] He issued to the combat, looking at nobody and fearing nothing; and on his sounding the horn to battle, Argalia ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2 • Leigh Hunt
... who, 300 B.C., after taking and pillaging Rome, invested the Capitol for so long that the Romans offered him a thousand pounds' weight of gold to retire; as the gold was being weighed out he threw his sword and helmet into the opposite scale, adding Vae victis, "Woe to the conquered," an insolence which so roused Camillus, that he turned his back and offered battle to him and to his army, and totally routed the ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... "His helmet!" cried Lennox excitedly, and he too passed it back to where Roby and Dickenson were, and they ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn


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