Definition of accessory

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Accessory (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music..

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Accessory :: Accessory (n.) Same as Accessary, n..
Accessorial :: Accessorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt..
Fixture :: Fixture (n.) Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others..
Append :: Append (v. t.) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter..
Harmonical :: Harmonical (a.) Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body..
Principal :: Principal (n.) The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory..
Accessory :: Accessory (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
Fulcrate :: Fulcrate (a.) Propped; supported by accessory organs.
Adjective :: Adjective (n.) A dependent; an accessory.
Appurtenant :: Appurtenant (a.) Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings..
Figurant :: Figurant (n. masc.) One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part..
Hypoptilum :: Hypoptilum (n.) An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.
Accessory :: Accessory (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts..
Accessorily :: Accessorily (adv.) In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.
Accomplice :: Accomplice (n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory..
Anapophysis :: Anapophysis (n.) An accessory process in many lumbar vertebrae.
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
Accessory :: Accessory (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music..
Contingency :: Contingency (n.) An adjunct or accessory.
Accessoriness :: Accessoriness (n.) The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately..
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