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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,920 words match “AID”

SAID a. 2 definitions
before-mentioned; already spoken of or specified; aforesaid; -- used chiefly in legal style.
SCHOOLMAID n.
A schoolgirl. Shak.
SEA-MAID n. 2 definitions
The mermaid.
SHOPMAID n.
A shopgirl.
SHROUD-LAID a.
Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage.
SPAID n.
See 1st Spade.
STAID a. 2 definitions
; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful. "Sober and staid persons." Addison. O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. Milton.
STAIDLY adv.
In a staid manner, sedately.
STAIDNESS n.
The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or Ant: levity. If sometimes he appears too gray, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness and sobriety of age wanting. Dryden.
SUBAID v.
To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly. [R.] Daniel.
THEBAID n.
A Latin epic poem by Statius about Thebes in Boeotia.
UNAIDABLE a.
Incapable of being aided. "Her unaidable estate." Shak.
UNBRAID v.
To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle.
UNDERAID v.
To aid clandestinely. [Obs.]
UNDERLAID a.
Laid or placed underneath; also, having something laid or lying underneath.
UNLAID a. 3 definitions
Not laid or placed; not fixed. Hooker.
UNMAIDEN v.
To ravish; to deflower. [Obs.]
UNPLAID v.
To deprive of a plaid.
UPBRAID v. 6 definitions
teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed. And upbraided them with their unbelief. Mark xvi. 14. Vet do not Upbraid us our distress. Shak.
WAID a.
Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down. [Obs.] Tusser.
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