Help-meet | Easton's Bible Dictionary

Meet
·adv <<Meetly>>. II. Meet ·adj Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient. III. Mee...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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.
help
to mend or repair anything. North. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
meet her!
The order to adjust the helm, so as to check any further movement of the ship's head in a given dire...

The Sailor's Word-Book
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
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