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. Etym: [A corruption of the "help meet for him" of
Genesis ii. 18.Fitzedward Hall.]
Defn: 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.
HELPMEET
Help"meet`, n. Etym: [See Helpmate.]
Defn: 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.
HELTER-SKELTER Hel"ter-skel"ter, adv. Etym: [An onomatholter-polter, D. holder de bolder.]