(dated, rare) The care and support of orphans.

(uncountable) The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence. / (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.

forming adjectives with the sense of ‘habitually eating, feeding on’

(dated, military) A large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy.