[ noun ] capital of the state of Montana; located in western Montana <noun.location>
Saint \Saint\ (s[=a]nt), n. [F., fr. L. sanctus sacred, properly p. p. of sancire to render sacred by a religious act, to appoint as sacred; akin to sacer sacred. Cf. {Sacred}, {Sanctity}, {Sanctum}, {Sanctus}.] 1. A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.
Them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints. --1 Cor. i. 2.
2. One of the blessed in heaven.
Then shall thy saints, unmixed, and from the impure Far separate, circling thy holy mount, Unfeigned hallelujahs to thee sing. --Milton.
3. (Eccl.) One canonized by the church. [Abbrev. St.]
{Saint Andrew's cross}. (a) A cross shaped like the letter X. See Illust. 4, under {Cross}. (b) (Bot.) A low North American shrub ({Ascyrum Crux-Andre[ae]}, the petals of which have the form of a Saint Andrew's cross. --Gray.
{Saint Anthony's cross}, a T-shaped cross. See Illust. 6, under {Cross}.
{Saint Anthony's fire}, the erysipelas; -- popularly so called because it was supposed to have been cured by the intercession of Saint Anthony.
{Saint Anthony's nut} (Bot.), the groundnut ({Bunium flexuosum}); -- so called because swine feed on it, and St. Anthony was once a swineherd. --Dr. Prior.
{Saint Anthony's turnip} (Bot.), the bulbous crowfoot, a favorite food of swine. --Dr. Prior.
{Saint Barnaby's thistle} (Bot.), a kind of knapweed ({Centaurea solstitialis}) flowering on St. Barnabas's Day, June 11th. --Dr. Prior.
{Saint Bernard} (Zo["o]l.), a breed of large, handsome dogs celebrated for strength and sagacity, formerly bred chiefly at the Hospice of St. Bernard in Switzerland, but now common in Europe and America. There are two races, the smooth-haired and the rough-haired. See Illust. under {Dog}.
{Saint Catharine's flower} (Bot.), the plant love-in-a-mist. See under {Love}.
{Saint Cuthbert's beads} (Paleon.), the fossil joints of crinoid stems.
{Saint Dabeoc's heath} (Bot.), a heatherlike plant ({Dab[oe]cia polifolia}), named from an Irish saint.
{Saint Distaff's Day}. See under {Distaff}.
{Saint Elmo's fire}, a luminous, flamelike appearance, sometimes seen in dark, tempestuous nights, at some prominent point on a ship, particularly at the masthead and the yardarms. It has also been observed on land, and is due to the discharge of electricity from elevated or pointed objects. A single flame is called a {Helena}, or a {Corposant}; a double, or twin, flame is called a {Castor and Pollux}, or a {double Corposant}. It takes its name from St. Elmo, the patron saint of sailors.
{Saint George's cross} (Her.), a Greek cross gules upon a field argent, the field being represented by a narrow fimbriation in the ensign, or union jack, of Great Britain.
{Saint George's ensign}, a red cross on a white field with a union jack in the upper corner next the mast. It is the distinguishing badge of ships of the royal navy of England; -- called also {the white ensign}. --Brande & C.
{Saint George's flag}, a smaller flag resembling the ensign, but without the union jack; used as the sign of the presence and command of an admiral. [Eng.] --Brande & C.
{Saint Gobain glass} (Chem.), a fine variety of soda-lime plate glass, so called from St. Gobain in France, where it was manufactured.
{Saint Ignatius's bean} (Bot.), the seed of a tree of the Philippines ({Strychnos Ignatia}), of properties similar to the nux vomica.
{Saint James's shell} (Zo["o]l.), a pecten ({Vola Jacob[ae]us}) worn by pilgrims to the Holy Land. See Illust. under {Scallop}.
{Saint James's-wort} (Bot.), a kind of ragwort ({Senecio Jacob[ae]a}).
{Saint John's bread}. (Bot.) See {Carob}.
{Saint John's-wort} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Hypericum}, most species of which have yellow flowers; -- called also {John's-wort}.
{Saint Leger}, the name of a race for three-year-old horses run annually in September at Doncaster, England; -- instituted in 1776 by Col. St. Leger.
{Saint Martin's herb} (Bot.), a small tropical American violaceous plant ({Sauvagesia erecta}). It is very mucilaginous and is used in medicine.
{Saint Martin's summer}, a season of mild, damp weather frequently prevailing during late autumn in England and the Mediterranean countries; -- so called from St. Martin's Festival, occurring on November 11. It corresponds to the Indian summer in America. --Shak. --Whittier.
{Saint Patrick's cross}. See Illust. 4, under {Cross}.
{Saint Patrick's Day}, the 17th of March, anniversary of the death (about 466) of St. Patrick, the apostle and patron saint of Ireland.
{Saint Peter's fish}. (Zo["o]l.) See {John Dory}, under {John}.
{Saint Peter's-wort} (Bot.), a name of several plants, as {Hypericum Ascyron}, {H. quadrangulum}, {Ascyrum stans}, etc.
{Saint Peter's wreath} (Bot.), a shrubby kind of Spir[ae]a ({S. hypericifolia}), having long slender branches covered with clusters of small white blossoms in spring.
{Saint's bell}. See {Sanctus bell}, under {Sanctus}.
{Saint Vitus's dance} (Med.), chorea; -- so called from the supposed cures wrought on intercession to this saint.
Helena \Hel"e*na\, n. [L.: cf. Sp. helena.] See {St. Elmo's fire}, under {Saint}.
In the Elkhorn Mountains about 10 miles southeast of Helena, officials closed public access to 58,000 acres where a week-old fire continued to burn in steep, heavily timbered terrain.
Federal inspectors cited Asarco Inc.'s East Helena, Mont., lead smelter, saying the company willfully violated federal lead and arsenic health standards.
Helena Botha, wife of South African foreign minister Pik Botha, was paralysed from the neck down after a fall.
Ed Schild of the Helena area sheriff's office said Shaw may face charges of aggravated non-support for abandoning his wife and children.
The remainder is spread among many European countries and the U.S. Helena Rubinstein's most successful products are high-priced skin care, hair care and makeup items, notably anti-age creams, L'Oreal said.
The ruling allows William D. West, a Helena, Mont., patent lawyer, to pursue a suit against Northwest Airlines for selling tickets that cannot be exchanged or refunded but are subject to bumping when flights are overbooked.
She also worked on Alka Seltzer Plus commercials, persuading 30 Montana ranchers to travel up to 100 miles in the dead of winter to discuss their colds with her on videotape at a Helena hotel.
Many homes in Helena rely on electricity as their primary source of heat.
She turned up a day later on a country road northeast of Helena, where a motorist picked her up and took her to a hospital, authorities said.
This rural outpost, 400 miles northeast of Helena, has one stoplight and five ostriches.
Including them, Princess Helena College, Hitchin, with two A-level candidates, came out second. AS-levels comprise about half the workload of an A-level.
Brett D. Byers, 19, was charged with two counts of deliberate homicide, felony criminal mischief and reckless driving after he was arrested in East Helena following a high-speed chase.
As a girl of 19, she landed a job as Helena Rubenstein's receptionist in New York.
A wildfire near Helena, Mont., tripled in size today, growing into a "wall of flame" that destroyed at least three homes and forced dozens of residents to flee.
L'Oreal S.A. said Friday it has reinforced its position among the world's leading cosmetics concerns by acquiring Helena Rubinstein Inc.
Secretary of State George Shultz's wife, Helena, was given a $20 "horse tail fly whisk" by women from the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement.
"The Palestinian cause has been badly hurt since the beginning of this crisis, and their miscalculation has been compounded now that Israel and the U.S. are closer," says Helena Cobban, a scholar-in-residence at the Foundation for Middle East Peace.
Industry analysts said it is possible that L'Oreal may be contemplating a relaunch of the Helena Rubinstein trademark in the U.S. market.
The baby's second name _ Victoria _ comes from Queen Victoria herself, and the third name, Helena, comes from the third daughter of Queen Victoria.
Cars from the train, which had been making its way up a long mountain grade en route to Spokane, Wash., coasted backwards nine miles into Helena and hit another train and a propane tank.
Every Kafka frisson is flattened by declamatory literalism; every dark Kafka joke is trapped in the headlights of the film's stagy overemphasis. Boxing Helena is another potentially startling idea boxed into banality by the mise-en-scene.
The Moving Theatre Company has been founded by Vanessa and Corin Redgrave; their co-directors are Lenka Udovicki of former Yugoslavia and Helena Kaut-Howson of Theatr Clwyd.
Montana's morning snowstorm dropped 2 inches of snow in an hour in the capital of Helena.
But his divorced brother, Howard Schlossberg, is thrilled to meet Helena, and it just so happens he feels the immediate need of her services.
The woman underwent surgery at a Helena hospital Sunday and was in stable condition Wednesday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
"Elizabeth Arden had her horses, and Helena Rubenstein had her art," he noted.
School District 1 in Helena said children who couldn't be taken directly home by bus or would be home alone would be taken back to school to await their parents.
Craft told the Helena Independent Record that he, too, had been molsted by Marks.
Juliet Booth's painfully frumpy Helena, John Graham-Hall's impossibly gangling Lysander, and Peter Rose's irrepressible Bottom must be mentioned, together with Emil Wolk's virtuoso, menacing Puck.