help | A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

Help
·vt Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it. II. Help ·vt Specifically, a domestic servant, man...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
help
The common term in New England for a domestic servant--also for the operatives in a cotton or woolen...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Self-help
·noun The act of aiding one's self, without depending on the aid of others. II. Self-help ·add. ·no...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Help-meet
(Heb. ezer ke-negdo; i.e., "a help as his counterpart" = a help suitable to him), a wife (Gen. 2:18-...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
looking as if one could not help it
Looking like a simpleton, or as if one could not say boh! to a goose. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose