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.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts..
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) Something added for ornamentation; 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..
Accessory :: Accessory (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
Aristotle's Lantern :: Aristotle's lantern () The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.
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..
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 (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..
Principal :: Principal (n.) The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory..
By-dependence :: By-dependence (n.) An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory..
Appurtenance :: Appurtenance (n.) That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land..
Accomplice :: Accomplice (n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory..
Accessorily :: Accessorily (adv.) In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.
Adjective :: Adjective (n.) A dependent; an accessory.
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.
Fulcrate :: Fulcrate (a.) Propped; supported by accessory organs.
Accessary :: Accessary (a.) Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory..
Accessorial :: Accessorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt..
Contingency :: Contingency (n.) An adjunct or accessory.
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