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having near it a medicinal {pring ; 17 
duttle. N. lat..52° 15'. Ae 
HELMET, or Hem, an ancient armour of defence, 
worn by the cavaliers, both in war and in tournaments, as a 
cover and defence of the head; and ftill ufed by way of a 
ereft or ornament. over the fhield or coat of arms, or at the 
top of the efcutcheon. 
- "The helmet is known by divers other names, as the /ead- 
ov feel cap, &c. ~ The Germans call it helen or hellem; the 
Italians e/mo, the French cafque, as did alfo the ancient 
miles E. of Wolfen- 
3’ 
Englifh. 
Phe helmet covered the head and face, only leaving an 
aperture about the eyes, fecured by bars, which ferved asa 
vilor. 
Helmets have varied in different ages and countries, in 
rules obtained: __ 
perfon newly ennobled, or made a gentleman, bears 
over his efcutcheon a helmet of bright iron or fteel, in pro- 
file, or ftanding fideways; the vifor quite clofe. 
A man o 
d tle f three defcents bears it*a little open, but 
ftill in profile, fhewing three bars of the vifo 
Ancient knights, &c. have it in profile, but fhewing five 
bars; the edges of filver pic 8 
- A baron’s helmet is of filver; the edges gold, with feven 
bars neither quite in profile, nor yet in front, witha coronet 
over it adorned wih pearls. 
_ Vifcounts and earls formerly bore a filver helmet, with 
Id edges, its pofition like the former ; but now they bear 
it quite fronting, with a coronet over it. : 
- Marquifes beara filver helmet, damafked, fronting, with 
eleven bars, and their coronet. 
Dukes and princes have their helmet, damafked, fronting, 
the vifor almoft open, and without bars, with their coronets 
over t . 
« Laftly, the helmets of kings and princes are all of gold, 
damafked full fronting, and the vifor quite open, and with- 
out bars, 
The helmets of baftards are to be turned to the left, to 
denote their baftard | 
i heralds allotted many degrees to thefe 
prefent we retain only the fol- 
princes © 
2. The full-faced helmet, with five bars; the 
l, and the bars and breaft part ade for dukes 
i f ing helmet of 
bailes, orgricls, and ornaments. 
HEL 
ing like thofe adopted for efquires, unlefs in their original 
azon, they are expreffed to be otherwife circumftanced. 
If two helmets are placed on one fhield, they are ufually fet 
ace to face, in imitation of the method practifed by the 
Germans, who fometimes place ten or more helmets on a 
fhield ; and in fuch cafe, they fet the centre helmet affrontée, 
and thofe on each fide looking towards that in the centre. 
eELMET-f/h, in Natural Hiflory, the {colopendrites or 
echinus fpatagus, or foflil echinus of Dr. Grew,  Rarities,’’ 
or yellow, and fometimes, though rarely, blue; the reft of 
the body is all white. They are red-eyed, and have no hood 
like that of the nun, otherwife they approach much to that 
ies. Moore’s Columbarium, p. 4 
ELMET-/fone, in Natural Hiflory, iw a name which Dr. 
rew has a ext to feveral {pecies of echinites, or fofhl 
echinus, of which he diftinguifhes four kinds, the foft-oval, 
; : 
GALEA. - 
Jone, in Natural Hiftory, a wame given by Linnaeus to pe- 
sited bodies refembling a Of thete he ped 
24 different genera.” 
raped bars ge is the fixth of the eighth 
. Ww 
UNTROCIIUS 
See ‘THUS. 
MINTHOTHECA, in Botany, a name 
compre ' ey é 
feparated by Vaillant, who called it Helmintothear, but we 
x have given the name adopted by J uffieu and Gartner, though 
we are of opinion that it is too nearly icris to be 
cidedly feparated from that genus. The moft important 
mark of diltin@ion between Pieris and Helmintia confitts in 
the former having the crown of its {ved {effile, whereas ia 
er it ftands upon a The only {pectes of this 
| ing to Willdenow and Juffieu, *is 
Puris s Linn. Sp. Pl. 1114. Sm. Fl. Brit. 814. 
Engh Be, ‘2, Curt. Lond. fafe. 3, t. Ste 
~ HELMONT, Joux Bartisr Vay, in Biography, a dif. 
re Ss , tinguifhed 
