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- English Word Heliotype Definition A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
- English Word Heliotypic Definition Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
- English Word Heliotypy Definition A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
- English Word Heliozoa Definition An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.
- English Word Helispheric Definition Alt. of Helispherical
- English Word Helispherical Definition Spiral.
- English Word Helium Definition A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.
- English Word Helix Definition A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.
- English Word Helix Definition A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.
- English Word Helix Definition The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.
- English Word Helix Definition A genus of land snails, including a large number of species.
- English Word Helixes Definition of Helix
- English Word Hell Definition The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
- English Word Hell Definition The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
- English Word Hell Definition A place where outcast persons or things are gathered
- English Word Hell Definition A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- English Word Hell Definition A gambling house.
- English Word Hell Definition A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
- English Word Hell Definition To overwhelm.
- English Word Hell-cat Definition A witch; a hag.