Definition of auxiliary

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Auxiliary (sing.) 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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Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note..
Adminicle :: Adminicle (n.) Help or support; an auxiliary.
Must :: Must (v. i. / auxiliary) To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws..
Auxiliatory :: Auxiliatory (a.) Auxiliary; helping.
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To cheat; to gull; to overreach.
Ought :: Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed..
Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
Supplyment :: Supplyant (a.) Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory.
Ought :: Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be bound in duty or by moral obligation..
Logarithm :: Logarithm (n.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division..
Ancillary :: Ancillary (a.) Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary..
Ally :: Ally (v.) Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.
Preventer :: Preventer (n.) An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast.
Would :: Would (v. t.) Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will..
Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) To owe; to be under obligation for.
Could :: Could (imp.) Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present..
Flown :: Flown () p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown..
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text..
Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) To be obliged; must.
Secondary :: Secondary (n.) One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London..
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