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help, hylp (an i-stem noun? Cf. u-grade forms, hulpa, hulfa in O. L. Ger. and O.H.Ger. But cf. also hylpan = helpan):
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help, assistance, succour
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  • Nú is hire helpe heáhsǽl cumen

    venit tempus miserendi ejus,

    • Ps. Th. 101
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  • Is micel þearf ealre þisse þeóde helpes and rǽdes.

    • Wlfst. 243, 4.
  • Sende se túnrǽd his helges biddende.

    • Hml. S. 31, 1220.
  • Hé hyne bæd hylpes,

    • Shrn. 147, 9
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  • Ælcum swyn-cendum on helpe beón,

    • Ll. Th. ii. 414, 36
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    • Ps Th. 98, 3
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  • Hy on name helpe néron ne heom sylfum ne heora freóndum,

    • Solil. H. 68, 24
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  • Hé út blǽde lǽdeð, hió tó helpe hæleða bearnum

    qui producit foenum, et herbam servituti hominum,

    • Ps. Th. 146, 9
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    • 77, 18
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  • Hé geþolade láðlicne deáð leódum tó helpe,

    • Cri. 1174
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  • Þú onwóce mannum tó helpe,

    • Sat. 440.
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    • B. 1961
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    • Kr. 102
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    • El. 679
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  • Hé geseah þá gesihþe þám mannum tó nytnesse þe hit gehýrað, ná him sylfum tó ǽnigre helpe

    • Gr. D. 327, 17.
  • Heó þæt cild gebaer eallum middangearde tó sóðan helpe,

    • Wlfst. 22, 10
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  • Ic helpe tó þé holde gelýfe

    ad te confugi.

    • Ps. Th. 142, lo
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    • Sae. 291
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    • Vald. 2, 27
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  • Ne mæg se hreó hyge helpe gefremman,

    • Wand. 16
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    • Cri. 263
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    • 424
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    • Ph. 650
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    • B. 1552
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    • An. 91
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    • 426
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    • 1616
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    • Jul. 696
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    • 722
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  • Hé him helpe (helpan, MS., the verb having been written in error under the influence of mæg which follows ?) ne mæg eald and infród ǽnige gefremman,

    • B. 2448
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  • Hí æt him helpe gemétton,

    • G. i. 894
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    • El. 1032
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    • Ps. Th. 105, 24
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    • 117, 13
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  • Ic helpe æt þé hæfde symble

    factus es refugium meum,

    • 58, 17
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any thing or person that affords help, a means of assistance or support, an aid.
a person
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  • Þú eart ealra cyninga help, hálig lǽce,

    • Hy. 7, 62
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  • Ic gewéne on milde mód mínes Drihtnes, and mé þæt wát tó helpe,

    • Ps. Th. 51, 7.
  • Ne him áhwǽr were ǽnig fultum, ne his steópcildum stande tó helpe

    non sit illi adjutor, nec sit qui misereatur pupillis ejus,

    • 108, 12
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  • Þú scealt leódum þínum tó helpe weorðan,

    • B. 1709
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a thing
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  • Heó cwæð ꝥ þæs geáres help (bigleofa,

    v. l. subsidium)

    hire forspilled wǽre,

    • Gr. D. 68, 23
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  • Nýd weorðeð oft niða barnum tó helpe,

    • Rún. 10
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  • Hé gewende tó his gewunelican helpe, scrýdde hine mid hǽran . . . and fæstende þurhwunode on singallum gebedum,

    • Hml. S. 31, 661
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  • Hé geaf six and twéntig cottlífa eallum tó hylpe,

    • C D. B. ii. 389, 33.
  • Nim þé þis ofæt on hand . . . þé sende God þás helpe of heofonríce,

    • Gen. 521
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  • Helpas

    solacia,

    • R. Ben. I. of, 10:

    praesidia,

    • Wülck. Gl. 252, 5
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  • Þá eorþlican helpas dón

    terrena subsidia prebere,

    • Chrd. 66, 22.
a place, a refuge:
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  • Stán help ílum

    petra refugium herenacis,

    • Ps. Rdr. 103, 18
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a cure, remedy of disease
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  • Gif þás fultumas ne sýn helpe

    if these remedial measures are not effectual remedies.

    • Lch. ii. 262, 15
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v. mid-help, níd-help.
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v.  helpe.
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