(a) Aid, assistance, help; support, encouragement; also, spiritual aid, spiritual comfort; don ~ (to, to give assistance to (sb.), help; (b) relief, alleviation of a condition; remedy, alternative, recourse; respite; withouten ~, without possibility of remedy, without relief or alleviation; without recourse; without respite; don ~ upon, to relieve (a person's need); taken ~ of, take recourse to (flight); (c) provision, sustenance; place of ~, a guesthouse; (d) ben holden to hire ~, to be bound to aid her (by way of making amends).

Military assistance provided by an individual or an armed host; coll. & pl. military reinforcements; comen to ~, to come to (someone's) rescue; don ~, provide (sb.) with reinforcements; senden to ~ of, send (sb.) to the aid of (sb.).

(a) Protection, refuge; defense; also fig.; place of ~; don ~, to protect (oneself); (b) a place of refuge or protection; a place of defense, stronghold; (c) protection from punishment, refuge from prosecution, deliverance from execution; pardon; ~ of lif, the sparing of (a person's) life; bidden (bisechen of) ~, to beg for pardon; crien (after) ~, ask for mercy, beg quarter; don ~ to, pardon (sins); taken ~, claim sanctuary.

(a) A helper, protector, champion; also, coll. assistants, a retinue; (b) a thing which aids or protects.