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Webster 1913 Edition
Aid
Aid
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Aided
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Aiding
.] [F.
aider
, OF. aidier
, fr. L. adjutare
to help, freq. of adjuvare
to help; ad
+ juvare
to help. Cf. Adjutant
.] 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
Appear and
aid
me in this enterprise. Shakespeare
Syn. – To help; assist; support; sustain; succor; relieve; befriend; coöperate; promote. See
Help
. 1.
Help; succor; assistance; relief.
An unconstitutional mode of obtaining
aid
. Hallam.
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. Tobit viii. 6.
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.
Blackstone.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Aid
AID
,Verb.
T.
To help; to assist; to support, either by furnishing strength or means to effect a purpose, or to prevent or remove evil.
AID
,Noun.
1.
Help; succor; support; assistance.2.
The person who aids or yields support; a helper; an auxiliary; also the thing that aids or yields succor.3.
In English law, a subsidy or tax granted by parliament, and making a part of the king's revenue.In France, aids are equivalent to customs, or duties on imports and exports.
4.
In England, a tax paid by a tenant to his lord; originally a mere gift, which afterwards became a right demandable by the lord. the aids of this king were chiefly three.1.
To ransom the lord when a prisoner.2.
To make the lord's eldest son a knight. 3.
To marry the lord's eldest daughter.5.
An aiddecamp, so called by abbreviation.6.
To pray in aid, in law, is to call in a person interested in a title, to assist in defending it. Thus a tenant for life may pray in the aid of him in remainder or reversion; that is, he may pray or petition that he may be joined in the suit to aid or help maintain the title. This act or petition is called aid-prayer.Court of aids, in France, is a court which has cognizance of causes respecting duties or customs.