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Curved ft'yles. Native of Pennfylvania and Virginia; 
flowers in May and June. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants may be increafed 
by offsets taken from the roots in autumn; or by feeds, 
which fliould be fown as foon as ripe. They prefer a 
light freth foil, and are hardy enough to thrive in the 
open air. They rnuft not be removed oftener than once 
in three or four years.; and they are as long in coming to 
flower from the feed. 
HELO'RUM or Helo'rus, now Muri Ucci, a town 
and river of Sicily, whofe fwollen waters generally 
inundate the neighbouring country. Virgil. —Alfo a 
river of Magna Grascia. 
HE'LOS, f [Greek.] A white callous fwelling of 
the foot, like the head of a nail. Scott. 
HE'LOS, a town of Laconia, taken and deftroyed by 
. the Lacedeemonians, under Agis the third, of the race 
of the Heraclidae, becaufe they refufed to pay the 
tribute which was impofed upon them. The Lace¬ 
daemonians carried their refentment fo far, that, not 
fatisfied with the ruin of the city, they reduced the 
inhabitants to the lowed and molt miferable flavery, 
and made a faw which forbade .their matters either to 
give them their iiberty, or to fell them into any other 
country. To complete their infamy, all the tlaves of 
the date and the prifoners of war were called by the 
mean appellation of Helot/p, or Helots. Not only the 
fervile offices in which they were employed denoted 
their mifery and flavery, but they were obliged to wear 
peculiar garments, which expofed them to greater con¬ 
tempt and ridicule. They never were inftruded in the, 
liberal arts, and their cruel mafters often obliged them 
to drink to excefs, to fliow the free-born citizens of 
Sparta the beaftlinefs and difgrace of intoxication. They 
once every year received a number of ftripes, that by 
this wanton flagellation they might recoiled that they 
were born and died flaves. The Spartans even declared 
war againft them; but Plutarch, who', from interefted 
motives endeavours to palliate the guilt and cruelty of 
the people of Lacedaemon, declares that it was becaufe 
they had aflifted the Melfenians in their war againft 
Sparta, after it had been overthrown by a violent earth¬ 
quake. This earthquake was fuppofed by all the 
.Greeks to be a punilhment from heaven for the cruelties 
which the Lacedaemonians had exercifed againft the 
Helots. In the Peloponnefian war, thefe miferable 
flaves behaved with uncommon bravery, and were re¬ 
warded with their liberty by the Lacedaemonians, and 
appeared in the temples and at public fhows crowned 
with garlands, and with every mark of feftivity and 
triumph. This exultation did not continue long, and 
the fudden difappearance of the two thoufand manu¬ 
mitted flaves was attributed to the inhumanity of the 
Lacedaemonians. . Thucydides. —See the article Greece, 
vol. viii. p. 868-869. 
HELO'SIS,/. [Greek.] With furgeons, an inver- 
fion of the eye-lids. Scott. 
HELO'TIUM,/. in botany, a genus of the clafs 
cryptogamia, order fungi. The generic effential cha- 
raders are—Fungus with a flefliy-membranous convex- 
hemifphterical cap, fmooth underneath, and bearing 
naked feeds. 
Species. 1. Helotium glabrum: cap flat, glabrous; ftem 
glabrous. 2. H. cucullatum : femi-oval, rufty-yellow ; 
ftem linear, flender. 3. H\ unduofum: unduous at top, 
■With a callous margin ; glabrous beneath; ftem glabrous. 
4. H. hirfutum: hairy at top; ftem hairy. 5. H.agaricoi- 
des: white; ftem long, hairy, and fomewhat tuberous at 
the bafe. 6. H. aureum: yellow, thickifh, nearly feflile. 
HE'LOTS, the people of Helos, who became the 
public flaves of Sparta, defcribed above. The freemen 
of Sparta, were forbidden the exercife of any mean or 
mechanical employment, and therefore the whole care 
of fupplying the city with neceffaries devolved upon 
the Helots. 
H E L 
To HELP, v. a. prefer, helped , or holp ; part, helped , or 
kolpen: [hilpan , Gothic; helpan, Sax.] Toaffift; to Lip. 
port; to aid.—0 Lord make hafte to help me. Pfalms 
God helped him againft the Philiftines. 2 Giron. 
Let us work as valiant men behoves ; 
For boldeft hearts good fortune helpelh out. Fairfax. 
It has, in familiar language, the particle out, which 
feems to have meant, originally, out of a difficulty : 
This he conceives not hard to bring about,, 
If all of. you fliould join to help him out. Dryden. 
To raife by help : with up. —Woe to him that is alone 
when he falleth ; for he hath not another to help him 
up. Eccl. iv. 10.—To enable to furmount: with ewer.—■ 
Wherever they are at a ftand, help them presently over 
the difficulty without any rebuke. Locke —To remove 
by help : with off. —Having never learned any laudable 
manual art, they have recourfe to thofe foolifli or ill 
ways in ufe, to help off their time. Locke. —To free from 
pain or vexation.— Help and eafe them, but by no means 
bemoan them. Locke. —To cure; to heal: with of. Obfolete 
Love doth to her eyes repair. 
To help him of his blindnefs. Shakefpeare. 
It is ufed commonly before the difeafe.—The true cala¬ 
mus helps coughs. Gerard. —To remedy; to change for 
the better: 
Ceafe to lament for that thou can’ft not help ; 
And ftudy help for that which thou lament’d. Shakejp. 
To prevent; to hinder.—It is a high point of ill nature 
to makefport with any man’s imperfections that he can¬ 
not help. L'EJlrange. 
She, betwixt her modefty and pride, 
Her wiffies, which fhe could not help, would hide. Dry den. 
To forbear ; to avoid.—He cannot -help believing, that 
fuch things he faw and heard. Atterbury. —To promote ; 
to forward.—And they helped forward the afflidive. Zech. 
To Help to. To fupply with ; to furnifh with.—Whom 
they would help to a kingdom, thofe reign; and whom 
again they would, they difplace. 1 Mac. viii. 13. —To 
prefent at table: 
In plenty ftarving, tantaliz’d in ftate. 
And complaifantly help'd to all I hate ; 
Treated, carefs’d, and tir’d, I take my leave. Pope. 
To HELP, v. n. To contribute affiftance.—A gene¬ 
rous prefent helps to perfuade as well as an agreeable 
peffon. Garth. —To bring a fupply.—Some, wanting the 
talent to write, made it their care that the adors fliould 
help out where the mufes failed. Rymer. 
HELP, f. [hulpe , Dut.] Affiftance; aid; fupport; 
fuccour.—He may be beholden to experience and ac¬ 
quired notions, where he thinks he has not the lead help 
from them. Locke. —That which gives help.—Virtue is 
a friend and an help to nature ; but it is vice and luxury 
that deftroys it, and the difeafes of intemperance are the 
natural produd of the fins of intemperance. South. — 
That which forwards or promotes.—Coral is in ufe as 
an help to the teeth of children. Bacon. —Remedy.—There 
is no help for it, but he muft be taught accordingly to 
comply with the faulty way of writing. Holder on Speech. 
HELP'ER,/. An affiftant; an auxiliary; an aider; 
one that helps or aflifts.—There was not any left, nor 
any helper for Ifrael. 2 Kings. —It is impoffible for that 
man to defpair, who remembers that his helper is omni¬ 
potent. Taylor's Rule of Living holy.—* One that adminifters 
remedy.—Compafiion, the mother of tears, is not always 
a mere idle fpedator, but an helper oftentimes of evils. 
More. —One that fupplies with any thing wanted: withfos 
Heaven 
Hath brought me up to be your daughter’s dower. 
As it hath fated her to be my motive, 
And helper to a huiband, Shakefpeare. 
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