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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Auxiliary \Aux*il"ia*ry\ (?; 106), adjective [L. auxiliarius, fr. auxilium help, aid, fr. augere to increase.] Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
{Auxiliary scales} (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under {Attendant}, adjective
{Auxiliary verbs} (Gram.). See {Auxiliary}, noun, 3.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Auxiliary \Aux*il"ia*ry\, noun; pl. {Auxiliaries}.
1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
2. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
3. (Gram.) 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; [^e]tre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.
4. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formul[ae]. --Math. Dict.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
auxiliary
adjective
1: functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" [syn: {subsidiary}, {supplemental}, {supplementary}]
2: relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other" [syn: {accessory}, {adjunct}, {ancillary}, {adjuvant}, {appurtenant}, {subsidiary}]
noun: someone who acts as assistant [syn: {aide}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
124 Moby Thesaurus words for "auxiliary": abetting, accessory, accident, accidental, acolyte, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, adjutant, adjuvant, adscititious, adventitious, agent, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, aider, aiding, alter ego, ancillary, another, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, assistance, assistant, assisting, attendant, auxiliary verb, backing, best man, casual, circumstantial, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjutress, coadjutrix, collateral, complementary, contingency, contingent, contributory, copula, defective verb, deponent verb, deputy, executive officer, extra, farther, finite verb, fortuitous, fostering, fresh, further, girl Friday, happenstance, help, helper, helpful, helping, helpmate, helpmeet, impersonal verb, incidental, inessential, infinitive, instrumental, intransitive, intransitive verb, lieutenant, linking verb, man Friday, mere chance, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, modal auxiliary, more, neuter verb, new, nonessential, not-self, nurtural, nutricial, other, paranymph, paraprofessional, peripheral, plus, reserve, second, secondary, servant, serving, sideman, spare, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supernumerary, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, support, supporter, supporting, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist, supportive, surplus, transitive, tributary, ulterior, unessential, upholding, verb, verb phrase, verbal
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