Help

help, v.t. to support: to a ist: to mitigate: to give means for doing anything: to provide or supply with: to remedy: to prevent, to keep from.— v.i. to give a istance: to contribute:— pa.p. helped, ( B. ) hōlp′en. — n. means or strength given to another for a purpose: a istance: relief: one who a ists: ( Amer. ) a hired servant, esp. a domestic.— n. Help′er , one who helps: an a istant.— adj. Help′ful , giving help: useful.— n. Help′fulne .— adj. Help′le , without help or power in one's self: wanting a istance.— adv. Help′le ly .— ns. Help′le ne ; Help′mate , an a istant: a partner: a wife—also written Help′meet , from Gen. ii. 18.— Help forward , to a ist in making progre ; Help off , to aid in disposing or getting rid of; Help on , to forward, to lift up; Help out , to aid in finishing a task, eking out a supply, .; Help over , to enable to surmount; Help to , to aid in obtaining for some one; Help up , to raise.— God help him , a phrase implying extreme pity or commiseration.— So help me God , a very strong a everation, implying the willingne of the speaker to let his chance of salvation depend upon his truthfulne . [A.S. help an , pa.t. healp , pa.p. holpen ; Ice. hjálpa , Ger. helfen , to aid.]