transitive. To help forward, assist (usually things; less frequently †persons); to promote, favour (an action or movement). Cf. farther, v. †Also…

transitive. To help forward, promote the interests of; to benefit; to refresh (with food, etc.). Also, to indulge.

transitive. To help, aid, support, or sustain.

transitive. To supply with food or nourishment; to nourish, feed, support. In early quots. to feed and foster. Obsolete in lit. sense.

transitive. To further or assist (a person); to cause to succeed or prosper. Also reflexive. Now archaic.

transitive. To cause to prosper; to prosper. Obsolete.

transitive. To raise or promote (a person) in rank or office; to prefer; (also gen.) to put in a better or more advantageous position.

To raise from a prostrate, low, or dejected state; to assist, encourage, or cheer.

In pregnant sense: To make more wealthy, prosperous, or powerful; to enrich or advance; to cause to thrive; to promote. Obsolete or archaic (cf. incr…

transitive. To promote, uphold.

transitive. To lend speed or success to (a person or thing); to aid. Obsolete.

transitive. To be or constitute an aid to (a person or thing); to promote or encourage; to facilitate.

To assist (a person) in the way of progress; to help on (a matter, plan, etc.); to advance, promote.

transitive. To help forward, promote, favour, assist (an action, movement, etc., rarely, †a person); = further, v.

transitive. To make (an action, process, etc.) easy or easier; to assist in bringing about (a particular end or result); = facilitate, v. 1.

Of place: Towards a place or part in front or before, onward(s, forward. to be forthward: to be on one's way. to set forthward: to help on.

transitive. To help or push forward; to advance, assist, hasten, promote, urge on. Also, †to put forward, set on foot (obsolete rare).

transitive. To make (an action, process, etc.) easy or easier; to promote, help forward; to assist in bringing about (a particular end or result).

To equip, prepare, make provision for, allow; (hence) to assist, provide comfort or convenience to. transitive. To facilitate; to make (a process…

transitive (causative) To give success to; to prosper, further. Obsolete.

transitive. To speed, help on, prosper.

figurative. In a secure, prosperous, or favourable position; spec. so as to be financially self-sufficient. Frequently in to set (a person) on (al…

transitive. To be instrumental in furthering or assisting (a purpose, object, action, etc.); to promote or assist by serving as a means.

transitive. To advance or try to advance or promote; to urge or press the adoption, use, practice, sale, or acceptance of (a thing); to work for the…

transitive. To keep (a person, the mind, etc.) from negative thoughts or submission; to give courage, confidence, or power of endurance to. Often…

Originally and commonly in to give (a person) a leg up. Originally: an act of helping a rider to mount a horse, esp. by holding and lifting one…