Help

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.

II. Help ·vt Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.

III. Help ·vt To change for the better; to Remedy.

IV. Help ·vt To Forbear; to Avoid.

V. Help ·vt To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.

VI. Help ·vt A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.

VII. Help ·vt To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.

VIII. Help ·vt To Prevent; to Hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it?.

IX. Help ·vi To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to Assist.

X. Help ·vt To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against;

— sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object.

XI. Help ·vt Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.

XII. Help ·vt To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to Aid; to Assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember;

— the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony.".

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