Help

1. v. t. Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.
2. v. t. 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.”
3. v. t. To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.
4. v. t. 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.
5. v. t. To change for the better; to remedy.
6. v. t. To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it?
7. v. t. To forbear; to avoid.
8. v. t. To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.
9. v. i. To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.
10. v. t. 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.
11. 1v. t. 1 Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.
12. 1v. t. 1 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.”

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.