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Help (hĕlp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Helped (hĕlpt) (Obs. imp. Holp (h&ō;lp), p. p. Holpen (h&ō;l"p'n)); p. pr. & vb. n. Helping.] [AS. helpan; akin to OS. helpan, D. helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hj&ā;lpa, 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.
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2. To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. “God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!” Shak.
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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. “To help him of his blindness.” Shak.
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The true calamus helps coughs.
Gerarde.
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4. To change for the better; to remedy.
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Cease to lament for what thou canst not help.
Shak.
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5. To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it? Swift.
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6. To forbear; to avoid.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Syn. -- To aid; assist; succor; relieve; serve; support; sustain; befriend. -- To Help, Aid, Assist. These words all agree in the idea of affording relief or support to a person under difficulties. Help turns attention especially to the source of relief. If I fall into a pit, I call for help; and he who helps me out does it by an act of his own. Aid turns attention to the other side, and supposes co&ö;peration on the part of him who is relieved; as, he aided me in getting out of the pit; I got out by the aid of a ladder which he brought. Assist has a primary reference to relief afforded by a person who “stands by” in order to relieve. It denotes both help and aid. Thus, we say of a person who is weak, I assisted him upstairs, or, he mounted the stairs by my assistance. When help is used as a noun, it points less distinctively and exclusively to the source of relief, or, in other words, agrees more closely with aid. Thus we say, I got out of a pit by the help of my friend.
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Help (?), v. i. To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.
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A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person.
Garth.
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To help out, to lend aid; to bring a supply.
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Help, n. [AS. help; akin to D. hulp, G. h&ü;lfe, hilfe, Icel. hj&ā;lp, Sw. hjelp, Dan. hielp. See Help, v. t.]
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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.
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Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man.
Ps. lx. 11.
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God is . . . a very present help in trouble.
Ps. xlvi. 1.
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Virtue is a friend and a help to nature.
South.
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2. Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.
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3. A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.
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4. Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman. [Local, U. S.]
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