#711. Auxiliary. -- N. auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant, adjutant; ayudante[obs], coaid[obs]; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand; midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor, coadjutrix[obs]; collaborator.
ally; friend &c. 890, confidant, fidus Achates[Lat][obs], pal, buddy, alter ego.
[criminal law] confederate; accomplice; complice; accessory, accessory after the fact; particeps criminis[Lat]; socius criminis[Lat].
aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand, right- hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer; candle-holder, bottle-holder; handmaid; servant &c. 746; puppet, cat's-paw, jackal|!.
tool, dupe, stooge, ame damnee[Fr]; satellite, adherent.
votary; sectarian, secretary; seconder, backer, upholder, abettor, advocate, partisan, champion, patron, friend at court, mediator; angel [theater, entertainment].
friend in need, Jack at a pinch, deus ex machina[Lat], guardian angel, tutelary genius.