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help
v. t. [AS. helpan; akin to OS. helpan, D. helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hjlpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan. hielpe, Goth. hilpan; cf. Lith. szelpti, and Skr. klp to be fitting.]1. To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, Help me scale yon balcony. (Longfellow.)
2. To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. (Shak.)
3. To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object. (Shak.)
The true calamus helps coughs. (Gerarde.)
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4. To change for the better; to remedy. ()
Cease to lament for what thou canst not help. (Shak.)
5. To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it? (Swift.)
6. To forbear; to avoid. ()
I can not help remarking the resemblance betwixt him and our author. (Pope.)
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7. To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food. ()
To help forward, to assist in advancing. -- To help off, to help to go or pass away, as time; to assist in removing. Locke. -- To help on, to forward; to promote by aid. -- To help out, to aid, as in delivering from a difficulty, or to aid in completing a design or task. [1913 Webster] The god of learning and of light Would want a god himself to help him out. Swift. -- To help over, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over an obstacle. -- To help to, to supply with; to furnish with; as, to help one to soup. -- To help up, to help (one) to get up; to assist in rising, as after a fall, and the like. A man is well holp up that trusts to you. Shak. ()
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v. i. To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist. ()
A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person. (Garth.)
To help out, to lend aid; to bring a supply. ()
n. [AS. help; akin to D. hulp, G. hlfe, hilfe, Icel. hjlp, Sw. hjelp, Dan. hielp. See Help, v. t.] ()
1. Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars. ()
Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man. (Ps. lx. 11.)
God is . . . a very present help in trouble. (Ps. xlvi. 1.)
Virtue is a friend and a help to nature. (South.)
2. Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it. ()
3. A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business. ()
4. Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman. ()


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