To be of use or profit to any one; to avail. Chiefly impersonal. Obsolete.

intransitive. To be of use or value; to avail; it frames little: it profits little, it is of no avail. Also (of a remedy or medicine): to be…

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

absol. or intransitive. To be of use or service; to avail. Often quasi-impersonal. Obsolete (except as implied in sense 1d.)

intransitive. To be suitable, useful, or advantageous; to avail, help; to serve, suffice (for). Const. dative of person.

To avail, profit, be of use: in interrogative or negative sentences. Obsolete.

To be of use or service; to avail or profit. Used impersonally with it.

intransitive. To avail: = gain, v.1 1.

Frequently in it is speedful or syntactical variations of this. Obsolete.

Of a thing. Frequently with it as subject. intransitive. To be of advantage, use, or benefit. Frequently with to in early use. Now rare and archaic.

To be profitable, expedient, or useful. Chiefly impersonal. Obsolete.

intransitive. To be of advantage; to be profitable or beneficial. With to or indirect object.

To do good; to be of use or value; to profit, avail, help. (Only used in 3rd person.) impersonal (or with it): chiefly negative and interrogative…

intransitive. To be of advantage, profit, or use; = avail, v. 2d. Obsolete.

intransitive. To be of value, profit, or advantage.

transitive. To be of advantage or service to. rare.

impersonal. To avail, help. Now archaic.

transitive. (The object was probably originally dative) Of a thing: To be useful or advantageous to. Also absol. Now archaic (rare.)

intransitive. To be of use, profit, or benefit. Also with non-referential it as subject. Obsolete.

To be profitable or advantageous (to). Obsolete.