Hypertext Webster Gateway: "helped"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Help \Help\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Helped}(Obs. imp. {Holp}, p.
p. {Holpen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Helping}.] [AS. helpan; akin to
OS. helpan, D. helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel.
hj[=a]lpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan. hielpe, Goth. hilpan; cf. Lith.
szelpti, and Skr. klp to be fitting.]
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.''
--Longfellow.
2. To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as,
to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. ``God
help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!'' --Shak.
3. 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. ``To help him of his
blindness.''
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