To help forward, to assist in advancing. -- To help off, to help to go
or pass away, as time; to assist in removing. Locke. -- To help on, to
forward; to promote by aid. -- To help out, to aid, as in delivering
from a difficulty, or to aid in completing a design or task.
The god of learning and of light Would want a god himself to help
him out.
Swift.
-- To help over, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over an
obstacle. -- To help to, to supply with; to furnish with; as, to help
one to soup. -- To help up, to help (one) to get up; to assist in
rising, as after a fall, and the like. "A man is well holp up that
trusts to you." Shak.
Syn. -- To aid; assist; succor; relieve; serve; support; sustain;
befriend. -- To Help, Aid, Assist. These words all agree in the idea of
affording relief or support to a person under difficulties. Help turns
attention especially to the source of relief. If I fall into a pit, I
call for help; and he who helps me out does it by an act of his own.
Aid turns attention to the other side, and supposes coˆperation on the
part of him who is relieved; as, he aided me in getting out of the pit;
I got out by the aid of a ladder which he brought. Assist has a primary
reference to relief afforded by a person who "stands by" in order to
relieve. It denotes both help and aid. Thus, we say of a person who is
weak, I assisted him upstairs, or, he mounted the stairs by my
assistance. When help is used as a noun, it points less distinctively
and exclusively to the source of relief, or, in other words, agrees
more closely with aid. Thus we say, I got out of a pit by the help of
my friend.
Help (?), v. i. To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or
means; to avail or be of use; to assist.
A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable
person.
Garth.
To help out, to lend aid; to bring a supply.
Help, n. [AS. help; akin to D. hulp, G. h¸lfe, hilfe, Icel. hjlp, Sw.
hjelp, Dan. hielp. See Help, v. t.]
1. 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.
Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man.
Ps. lx. 11.
God is . . . a very present help in trouble.
Ps. xlvi. 1.
Virtue is a friend and a help to nature.
South.