Vocabulary : Heliotypic to Hellanodic

Heliotypic : Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
Heliotypy : A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
Heliozoa : An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.
Helispheric : Alt. of Helispherical
Helispherical : Spiral.

Helium : A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals. ;; An inert, monoatomic, gaseous element occurring in the atmosphere of the sun and stars, and in small quantities in the earth's atmosphere, in several minerals and in certain mineral waters. Symbol, He; at. wt., 4. Helium was first detected spectroscopically in the sun by Lockyer in 1868; it was first prepared by Ramsay in 1895. Helium has a density of 1.98 compared with hydrogen, and is more difficult to liquefy than the latter. Chemically, it belongs to the argon group and cannot be made to form compounds. It is a decomposition product of the radium emanation.
Helix : 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. ;; A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital. ;; The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear. ;; A genus of land snails, including a large number of species.
Helixes : of Helix
Hell : The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades. ;; The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish. ;; A place where outcast persons or things are gathered ;; A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention. ;; A gambling house. ;; A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type. ;; To overwhelm.
Hellanodic : A judge or umpire in games or combats.

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