Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PROF'IT, v.i.

1. To gain advantage in pecuniary interest; as, to profit by trade or manufactures.
2. To make improvement; to improve; to grow wiser or better; to advance in any thing useful; as, to profit by reading or by experience. She has profiled by your counsel. – Dryden.
3. To be of use or advantage; to bring good to. Riches profit not in the day of wrath. – Prov. xi.