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with other men's plumes. Fuller. Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled wing. Holmes. Help, ye tart satirists, to imp my rage With all the scorpions that should whip this age. Cleveland.

To people; to give a population to. [Obs.] Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.

Inability; helplessness. [R.] Latimer. Logical impossibility, a condition or statement involving contradiction or absurdity; as, that a thing can be and not be at the same time. See Principle of Contradiction, under Contradiction.

Incapable of being assisted; helpless. [R.] Shak.

, we are indebted to our parents for their care of us in infancy; indebted to friends for help and encouragement. Cowper.

being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper.

d. Daniel. Cruelty and jealousy seem to be ingrained in a man who has these vices at all. Helps.

he use of their natural faculties, may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions; and may arrive at certainty without any such original notions or principles. Locke.

Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business. The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth. Shak.

ic] The lion being dead, even hares insult. Daniel. An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity. Landor.

Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help. They drew a curse from an intended good. Cowper.

umane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc. The shade by which my life was crossed, . . . Has made me kindly with my kind. Tennyson.

A young kitten; a whelp. [Obs. or Scot.] B. Jonson.

; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. "Lamentable helplessness." Burke.

Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon. [Colloq.] The goat gives the fox a lift. L'Estrange.

or eyes. He seemed to find his way without his eyes; For out o'door he went without their helps, And, to the last, bended their light on me. Shak.

ne region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment. As far from help as Limbo is from bliss. Shak. A Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of fools. Milton.

The whelp of a lioness; a young lion.

ey were littered so with us. Sir T. Browne. The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hagborn. Shak.

which was used in changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind.