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ort to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak.

The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak.

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

In a manner to give aid. [R.]

An assistant; a helper.

Helpful.

Lending aid, helping.

Without aid or help. [R.] Pope.

A assister.

To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.

of glowing excitement or ardent desire. The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. Carlyle.

One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. Accessary before the fact (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. -- Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being prese…

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

One who attends; an assistant. "With such chiefs, and with James and John as acolytes." Motley.

A medicine or agent to assist hearing.

, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance. It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke.

A helper; an assistant.

A helper or assistant. [Archaic] Drayton.

Serving to help or assist; helping. [Obs.]