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Steerage :: Steerage (n.) The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.

Indrench :: Indrench (v. t.) To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown.

Bushelman :: Bushelman (n.) A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler.

Tiller :: Tiller (n.) A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1..

Ophthalmometer :: Ophthalmometer (n.) An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye, by which their curvature can be ascertained..

Helminthological :: Helminthological (a.) Of or pertaining to helminthology.

Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.

Helminthology :: Helminthology (n.) The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms..

Pinkroot :: Pinkroot (n.) The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of S. Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below)..

Ahull :: Ahull (adv.) With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n..

Helm :: Helm (n.) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.

Dismay :: Dismay (v. t.) Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

Plathelminthes :: Plathelminthes (n. pl.) Same as Platyelminthes.

Water-logged :: Water-logged (a.) Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm..

Eruption :: Eruption (n.) The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion..

Vermeology :: Vermeology (n.) A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoology which treats of worms; helminthology.

Helminthic :: Helminthic (n.) A vermifuge; an anthelmintic.

Steerer :: Steerageway (n.) A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.

Armet :: Armet (n.) A kind of helmet worn in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries..

Helm :: Helm (n.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone..

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