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Aid   /eɪd/   Listen
noun
Aid  n.  
1.
Help; succor; assistance; relief. "An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid."
2.
The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant. "It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself."
3.
(Eng. Hist.) A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.
4.
(Feudal Law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.
5.
An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.
Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit.
To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.



verb
Aid  v. t.  (past & past part. aided; pres. part. aiding)  To support, either by furnishing strength or means in coöperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist. "You speedy helpers... Appear and aid me in this enterprise."
Synonyms: To help; assist; support; sustain; succor; relieve; befriend; coöperate; promote. See Help.






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"Aid" Quotes from Famous Books



... f'r ye in that line,' he says. 'All th' hero jobs on this boat,' he says, 'is compitintly filled,' he says, 'be mesilf,' he says. 'I like to see th' wurruk well done,' he says, 'so,' he says, 'I don't thrust it to anny wan,' he says. 'With th' aid iv a small boy, who can shovel more love letthers an' pothry overboard thin anny wan I iver see,' he says, 'I'm able to clane up me hero business before noon ivry day,' he says. 'What's ye'er name?' ...
— Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen • Finley Peter Dunne

... determine what next he should do. The river-bank rose almost perpendicularly full twenty feet; no straggling vine, by whose help he might have clambered up, fell from it, and the foaming torrent rushing between it and him, rendered any attempt to scale it, without some aid from above, utterly impossible. He must, then, call for help; but who was there to hear him in this wild place—.and how could he make himself heard above the din of the raging waters which surrounded him? He was nigh despairing ...
— The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; The Boy and the Book; and - Crystal Palace • Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick

... rather with the feeling that inconstancy to his faith and his Lord would be base and disloyal. But, as the long days rolled on, if the future of toil and dreary misery developed itself before him, the sense of personal love and aid towards the Lord and Master whom he served grew upon him. Neither the gazelle-eyed Ayesha nor the prosperous village life presented any great temptation. He would have given them all for one bleak day of mist on a Border moss; ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge

... unseen by them, with the aid of a gardener, across the pond into the park. He withdrew from the window and fled quickly towards the chamber of Cyrene. She likewise was seeking him, and in a passage they rushed ...
— The False Chevalier - or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette • William Douw Lighthall

... look farther than the stoking of the physical system in the preparation of foods. Some of these are from chefs in restaurants and hotels, some from men and women of the foreign colonies and some from good friends who lent their aid in our pleasurable occupation. That we cannot print them all in a volume of this size is our regret, but another book now in preparation will contain them, together with other talks about San ...
— Bohemian San Francisco - Its restaurants and their most famous recipes--The elegant art of dining. • Clarence E. Edwords


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