Auxiliary

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.

II. Auxiliary ·adj Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.

III. Auxiliary ·noun Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in ·sg), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.

IV. Auxiliary (·sg) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.

V. Auxiliary (·sg) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs;

— called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.

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