Word Meanings - AIDANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Helping; helpful; supplying aid. Shak.

Related words: (words related to AIDANT)

• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• HELPLESS
  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
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• HELPER
  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
  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.
• HELPMATE
  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.
• HELPMEET
  A wife; a helpmate. The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. J. H. Newman.
• HELP
  helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hjalpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan. 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
• RESUPPLY
  To supply again.
• SELF-HELP
  The act of aiding one's self, without depending on the aid of others.
• OVERSUPPLY
  To supply in excess.
• WHELP
  One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass. 4. One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel. (more info) 1. One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy;
• WATER SUPPLY
  A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.
• THELPHUSIAN
  One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.