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Webster 1913 Edition
Assistant
As-sist′ant
,Adj.
[Cf. F.
assistant
, p. pr. of assister
.] 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
[U.S.]
☞ In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff.
Farrow.
As-sist′ant
,Noun.
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.
Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Assistant
ASSIST'ANT
,Adj.
ASSIST'ANT
,Noun.