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. 2. Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.
3. A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.
4. Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman. [Local, U. S.]
Helper
(Help"er) n. One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.
Thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Ps. x. 14.
Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils.
Dr. H. More. Helpful
(Help"ful) a. Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.
Heavens make our presence and our practices
Pleasant and helpful to him!
Shak. — Help"ful*ly, adv. — Help"ful*ness, n. Milton.
Helpless
(Help"less), a.
1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless
infant.
How shall I then your helpless fame defend?
Pope. 2. Beyond help; irremediable.
Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body.
Milton. 3. Bringing no help; unaiding. [Obs.]
Yet since the gods have been
Helpless foreseers of my plagues.
Chapman. 4. Unsupplied; destitute; — with of. [R.]
Helpless of all that human wants require.
Dryden. — Help"less*ly, adv. — Help"less*ness, n.
Helpmate
(Help"mate`) n. [A corruption of the "help meet for him" of Genesis ii. 18.Fitzedward Hall.] A
helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.
In Minorca the ass and the hog are common helpmates, and are yoked together in order to turn up the
land.
Pennant.
A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson.
Macaulay.
