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   Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury
         n 1: United States social economist (1876-1933) [syn:
               {Woodbury}, {Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury}]

English Dictionary: Helen Wills by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Helen Wills
n
  1. United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)
    Synonym(s): Moody, Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Helen Wills Moody
n
  1. United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)
    Synonym(s): Moody, Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Helmholtz
n
  1. German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894) [syn: Helmholtz, Hermann von Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Helm \Helm\, n. [OE. helme, AS. helma rudder; akin to D. & G.
      helm, Icel. hj[be]lm, and perh. to E. helve.]
      1. (Naut.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered,
            comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used
            of the tiller or wheel alone.
  
      2. The place or office of direction or administration.
            [bd]The helm of the Commonwealth.[b8] --Melmoth.
  
      3. One at the place of direction or control; a steersman;
            hence, a guide; a director.
  
                     The helms o' the State, who care for you like
                     fathers.                                             --Shak.
  
      4. [Cf. {Helve}.] A helve. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Helm amidships}, when the tiller, rudder, and keel are in
            the same plane.
  
      {Helm aport}, when the tiller is borne over to the port side
            of the ship.
  
      {Helm astarboard}, when the tiller is borne to the starboard
            side.
  
      {Helm alee}, {Helm aweather}, when the tiller is borne over
            to the lee or to the weather side.
  
      {Helm hard alee} [or] {hard aport}, {hard astarboard}, etc.,
            when the tiller is borne over to the extreme limit.
  
      {Helm port}, the round hole in a vessel's counter through
            which the rudderstock passes.
  
      {Helm down}, helm alee.
  
      {Helm up}, helm aweather.
  
      {To ease the helm}, to let the tiller come more amidships, so
            as to lessen the strain on the rudder.
  
      {To feel the helm}, to obey it.
  
      {To right the helm}, to put it amidships.
  
      {To shift the helm}, to bear the tiller over to the
            corresponding position on the opposite side of the vessel.
            --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Helmless \Helm"less\, a.
      1. Destitute of a helmet.
  
      2. Without a helm or rudder. --Carlyle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hollow \Hol"low\, a. [OE. holow, holgh, holf, AS. holh a hollow,
      hole. Cf. {Hole}.]
      1. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial,
            within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the
            interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
  
                     Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. --Ex. xxvii.
                                                                              8.
  
      2. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
  
                     With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.      --Shak.
  
      3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound;
            deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. --Dryden.
  
      4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as,
            a hollow heart; a hollow friend. --Milton.
  
      {Hollow newel} (Arch.), an opening in the center of a winding
            staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being
            supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the
            stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a
            staircase.
  
      {Hollow quoin} (Engin.), a pier of stone or brick made behind
            the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or
            recess to receive the ends of the gates.
  
      {Hollow root}. (Bot.) See {Moschatel}.
  
      {Hollow square}. See {Square}.
  
      {Hollow ware}, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron
            kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.
  
      Syn: Syn.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false;
               faithless; deceitful; treacherous.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Haliimaile, HI (CDP, FIPS 10900)
      Location: 20.87625 N, 156.34828 W
      Population (1990): 841 (240 housing units)
      Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
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