ASSISTANT

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

2.
a.

Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [U.S.]

3.
n.

One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help. Four assistants who his labor share. Pope. Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. Mrs. Chapone.

4.
n.

An attendant; one who is present. Dryden.

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