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AID, v.t. [L. adjuto. To help; to assist; to support, either by furnishing strength or means to effect a purpose, or to prevent or remove evil.AID, n. 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. |
A'IDANCE, n. Aid; help; assistance. [little used.] |
A'IDANT, a. Helping; helpful; supplying aid. [Not used.] |
A'IDDECAMP, n. plur. Aiddecamps.] In military affairs, an officer whose duty is to receive and communicate the orders of a general officer. [The pronunciation should be English, according to the orthography, not aid de cong.] |
A'IDED, pp. Assisted; supported; furnished with succor. |
A'IDER, n. One who helps; an assistant, or auxiliary. |
A'IDING, ppr. Helping; assisting. |
A'IDLESS, a. Helpless; without aid; unsupported; undefended. |
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