As*sist"ant (&?;), n.
1. One who,
or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.
Four assistants who his labor share.
Pope.
Rhymes merely as assistants to memory.
Mrs. Chapone.
2.
An attendant; one who is present. Dryden.
As*sist"ant (&?;), a.
[Cf. F. assistant, p. pr. of assister.]
1. Helping;
lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant
to each other.
Beattie.
2. (Mil.) Of the second grade in the
staff of the army; as,
an assistant surgeon. [U.S.]
&fist; In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff.
Farrow.
Hear it pronounced