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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Principal :: Principal (n.) The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory..
Lienculus :: Lienculus (n.) One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.
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.
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..
Accessory :: Accessory (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
Accessory :: Accessory (n.) Same as Accessary, n..
Appurtenant :: Appurtenant (a.) Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings..
Aristotle's Lantern :: Aristotle's lantern () The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.
Accessorial :: Accessorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt..
Contingency :: Contingency (n.) An adjunct or accessory.
By-dependence :: By-dependence (n.) An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory..
Anapophysis :: Anapophysis (n.) An accessory process in many lumbar vertebrae.
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..
Accessory :: Accessory (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts..
Accessoriness :: Accessoriness (n.) The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately..
Fulcrum :: Fulcrum (n.) An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like..
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..
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
Adjective :: Adjective (n.) A dependent; an accessory.
Append :: Append (v. t.) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter..
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