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<blockquote>A generous present <i>helps</i> to persuade, as well as an agreeable person. <i>Garth.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To help out</col>, <cd>to lend aid; to bring a supply.</cd></cs>

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

<hw>Help</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>help</ets>; akin to D. <ets>hulp</ets>, G. <ets>h\'81lfe</ets>, <ets>hilfe</ets>, Icel. <ets>hj\'belp</ets>, Sw. <ets>hjelp</ets>, Dan. <ets>hielp</ets>. See <er>Help</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; <as>as, he gave me a <ex>help</ex> of fifty dollars</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Give us <b>help</b> from trouble, for vain is the <b>help</b> of man. <i>Ps. lx. 11.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>God is . . . a very present <b>help</b> in trouble. <i>Ps. xlvi. 1.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Virtue is a friend and a <b>help</b> to nature. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Remedy; relief; <as>as, there is no <ex>help</ex> for it</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.</def> <mark>[Local, U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Helper</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>Help"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; <as>as, a lay <ex>helper</ex> in a parish</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Thou art the <b>helper</b> of the fatherless. <i>Ps. x. 14.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Compassion . . . oftentimes a <b>helper</b> of evils. <i>Dr. H. More.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Helpful</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>Help"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.</def>

<blockquote>Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and <b>helpful</b> to him! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Help"ful*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Help"ful*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Helpless</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>Help"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; <as>as, a helpless infant</as>.</def>

<blockquote>How shall I then your <b>helpless</b> fame defend? <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Beyond help; irremediable.</def>

<blockquote>Some <b>helpless</b> disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Bringing no help; unaiding.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Yet since the gods have been <b>Helpless</b> foreseers of my plagues. <i>Chapman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Unsupplied; destitute; -- with <i>of</i>.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>