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Aider

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aid  (d)
intr. & tr.v. aid·ed, aid·ing, aids
To help or furnish with help, support, or relief. See Synonyms at help.
n.
1. The act or result of helping; assistance.
2.
a. An assistant or helper.
b. A device that assists: visual aids such as slides.
c. A hearing aid.
3. An aide or aide-de-camp.
4. A monetary payment to a feudal lord by a vassal in medieval England.
[Middle English aiden, from Old French aider, from Latin aditre, frequentative of adiuvre, to help : ad-, to; see ad- in Indo-European roots + iuvre, to help.]
aider n.


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If only I was near Nancy or Aunt Polly, or even a Ladies' Aider, it would be easier
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Mrs Varden's chief aider and abettor, and at the same time her principal victim and object of wrath, was her single domestic servant, one Miss Miggs; or as she was called, in conformity with those prejudices of society which lop and top from poor hand- maidens all such genteel excrescences--Miggs.
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Instantly to turn upon me, charging that I have no sense of the enormity of the crime itself, but am its aider and abettor
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