Assistant

Definition of Assistant

As`sist´ant
a.1.Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
- Beattie.
2.(Mil.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon.
n.1.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.
2.An attendant; one who is present.

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