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1. Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream. Chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary. Florio. They constituted

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1. Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream. Chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary. Florio. They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence. Coleridge. 2. Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally. George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties. Ld. Mahon.

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  • ASSISTANTLY
    In a manner to give aid.
  • AIDANCE
    Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
  • AIDFUL
    Helpful. Bp. Hall.
  • ASSISTANCE
    1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
  • ASSIST
    To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
  • ABETTAL
    Abetment.
  • ASSISTER
    An assistant; a helper.
  • CONDUCIVENESS
    The quality of conducing.
  • ABETTER; ABETTOR
    One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor
  • ANCILLARY ADMINISTRATION
    An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.
  • AID-MAJOR
    The adjutant of a regiment.
  • ASSISTLESS
    Without aid or help. Pope.
  • AIDLESS
    Helpless; without aid. Milton.
  • HELPLESS
    1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant. How shall I then your helpless fame defend Pope. 2. Beyond help; irremediable. Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either
  • ASSISTOR
    A assister.
  • PROMOTIVE
    Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume.
  • AID-DE-CAMP
    An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.
  • AID
    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. Shak. Syn. -- To help; assist;
  • ASSISTIVE
    Lending aid, helping.
  • HELPER
    One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish. Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Ps. x. 14. Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils. Dr. H. More.
  • HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
    A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
  • SPAID
    See SPADE
  • DAYMAID
    A dairymaid.
  • SAID
    imp. & p. p. of Say.
  • MERMAID
    A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish. Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients. Mermaid fish
  • FORESAID
    Mentioned before; aforesaid.
  • WAID
    Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down. Tusser.
  • HAIDUCK
    Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or
  • MAIDENLINESS
    The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
  • RAID
    1. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray. Marauding chief! his sole delight. The moonlight raid, the morning fight. Sir W. Scott. There are permanent
  • BRAID
    and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring
  • HAIDINGERITE
    A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime; -- so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna.
  • STAIDNESS
    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

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