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<h1>Helotism</h1> <Xpage=683>

<hw>He"lot*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery.</def>

<h1>Helotry</h1> <Xpage=683>

<hw>He"lot*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen.</def> "The <i>Helotry</i> of Mammon."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<h1>Help</h1> <Xpage=683>

<hw>Help</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Helped</er> <tt>(?)</tt> (<mark>Obs</mark>. <tt>imp.</tt> <er>Holp</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Holpen</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Helping</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>helpan</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>helpan</ets>, D. <ets>helpen</ets>, G. <ets>helfen</ets>, OHG. <ets>helfan</ets>, Icel. <ets>hj\'belpa</ets>, Sw. <ets>hjelpa</ets>, Dan. <ets>hielpe</ets>, Goth. <ets>hilpan</ets>; cf. Lith. <ets>szelpti</ets>, and Skr. <ets>klp</ets> to be fitting.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; <as>as, to <ex>help</ex> a man in his work; to <ex>help</ex> one to remember</as>; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without <it>to</it>; <as>as, "<ex>Help</ex> me scale yon balcony."</as></def>

<i>Longfellow.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; <as>as, to <ex>help</ex> one in distress; to <ex>help</ex> one out of prison.</as></def> "God <i>help</i>, poor souls, how idly do they talk!"

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; -- sometimes with <i>of</i> before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object.</def> "To <i>help</i> him of his blindness." <-- now, <it>in</it> is used for that function; -- "to help him in his misery" -->

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>The true calamus <b>helps</b> coughs. <i>Gerarde.</i></blockquote>

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<p><b>4.</b> <def>To change for the better; to remedy.</def>

<blockquote>Cease to lament for what thou canst not <b>help</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can <i>help</i> it?</def>

<i>Swift.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To forbear; to avoid.</def>

<blockquote>I can not <b>help</b> remarking the resemblance betwixt him and our author. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<-- often used with "but" -->

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.</def>

<cs><col>To help forward</col>, <cd>to assist in advancing.</cd> -- <col>To help off</col>, <cd>to help to go or pass away, as time; to assist in removing. <i>Locke</i>.</cd> -- <col>To help on</col>, <cd>to forward; to promote by aid.</cd> -- <col>To help out</col>, <cd>to aid, as in delivering from a difficulty, or to aid in completing a design or task.</cd>

<blockquote>The god of learning and of light Would want a god himself <b>to help</b> him <b>out</b>. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To help over</col>, <cd>to enable to surmount; <as>as, <ex>to help</ex> one <ex>over</ex> an obstacle</as>.</cd> -- <col>To help to</col>, <cd>to supply with; to furnish with; as, <i>to help</i> one <i>to</i> soup.</cd> -- <col>To help up</col>, <cd>to help (one) to get up; to assist in rising, as after a fall, and the like. "A man is well <i>holp up</i> that trusts to you." <i>Shak</i>.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- To aid; assist; succor; relieve; serve; support; sustain; befriend.</syn> <usage> -- To <er>Help</er>, <er>Aid</er>, <er>Assist</er>. These words all agree in the idea of affording relief or support to a person under difficulties. <i>Help</i> turns attention especially to the source of relief. If I fall into a pit, I call for <i>help</i>; and he who <i>helps</i> me out does it by an act of his own. <i>Aid</i> turns attention to the other side, and supposes co\'94peration on the part of him who is relieved; as, he <i>aided</i> me in getting out of the pit; I got out by the <i>aid</i> of a ladder which he brought. <i>Assist</i> has a primary reference to relief afforded by a person who "stands by" in order to relieve. It denotes both <i>help</i> and <i>aid</i>. Thus, we say of a person who is weak, I <i>assisted</i> him upstairs, or, he mounted the stairs by my <i>assistance</i>. When <i>help</i> is used as a noun, it points less distinctively and exclusively to the source of relief, or, in other words, agrees more closely with <i>aid</i>. Thus we say, I got out of a pit by the <i>help</i> of my friend.</usage>

<h1>Help</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>Help</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.</def>