Word Meanings - SELF-HELP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of aiding one's self, without depending on the aid of others.

Related words: (words related to SELF-HELP)

• AIDANCE
  Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
• AIDFUL
  Helpful. Bp. Hall.
• AID
  A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan. (more info) 1. Help; succor; assistance; relief. An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid. Hallam. 2. The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper;
• DEPENDENT
  1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• DEPENDENCY
  1. State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust. Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds. So that
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• AID-MAJOR
  The adjutant of a regiment.
• AIDLESS
  Helpless; without aid. Milton.
• DEPENDABLE
  Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy. "Dependable friendships." Pope.
• DEPENDER
  One who depends; a dependent.
• AID-DE-CAMP
  An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• DEPEND
  Etym: 1. To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope. 2. To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court. You will
• DEPENDENTLY
  In a dependent manner.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• DEPENDANT; DEPENDANCE; DEPENDANCY
  See DEPENDENT
• AIDER
  One who, or that which, aids.
• DEPENDINGLY
  As having dependence. Hale.
• AIDANT
  Helping; helpful; supplying aid. Shak.
• HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
  A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
• SPAID
  See SPADE
• DAYMAID
  A dairymaid.
• INDEPENDENCY
  Doctrine and polity of the Independents. (more info) 1. Independence. "Give me," I cried , "My bread, and independency!" Pope.
• SELF-DEPENDING
  Depending on one's self.
• SAID
  imp. & p. p. of Say.
• MERMAID
  A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish. Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients. Mermaid fish
• FORESAID
  Mentioned before; aforesaid.
• WAID
  Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down. Tusser.
• HAIDUCK
  Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or
• BY-DEPENDENCE
  An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.
• MAIDENLINESS
  The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
• RAID
  1. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray. Marauding chief! his sole delight. The moonlight raid, the morning fight. Sir W. Scott. There are permanent
• BRAID
  and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring
• INTERDEPENDENT
  Mutually dependent.
• HAIDINGERITE
  A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime; -- so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna.
• STAIDNESS
  The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or Ant: levity. If sometimes he appears too gray, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness