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Unhelm

Unhelm \Un*helm"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + helm.] To deprive of the helm or helmet.
--Sir W. Scott.

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unhelm

vb. (context transitive English) To remove the helm from.

Usage examples of "unhelm".

He allowed a page to unhelm him, loosing the rough chestnut hair to the breeze, and strode off bellowing: bluff King Hal, wearing out his ten horses a day.

Cup of Renown that he would fight unhelmed throughout all that trouble, and would bear no shield in any battle thereof however fierce the onset might be.

Many wondered to see him unhelmed, but they had a deeming that he must have made oath to the Gods thereof and their hearts were glad of it.

Thiodolf stood with Throng-plough on his shoulder, unhelmed, unbyrnied, as though he trusted to the kindred for all defence.

There he sat unhelmed with the dwarf-wrought hauberk about him, holding Throngplough in its sheath across his knees, while he gave word to this and that man concerning the order of the host.

Monok Ochem standing alone, head tilted back as the winds of Tellann whipped the silver-tipped fur around his unhelmed head.

The King had unhelmed and removed his gauntlets, and from the fierce scowl that darkened his countenance it was evident that Queen Kalanthe had defied him.

If he then was justified in doing so of his own choice, and wilfully suffering to be unhelmed, how then can this knight be accused of evil who suffered it by chance?

Will Cary, was by this time sitting up, standing much in need of a handkerchief, and looking about him, having been unhelmed, in a confused and doleful manner.

Prince IVlaryn, riding unhelmed, with his golden hair gleaming in the sunlight.

He went unhelmed, a wilted wreath of Hress leaves sitting slightly crooked on his head, so that we knew him for a priest who had temporary duty thus, to remind, if only faintly, that there had once been a sacred meaning for this assembly.