English English Dictionary

An auxiliary.

of Auxiliary

By way of help.

Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.

A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.

Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.

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.

A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.

Auxiliary; helping.

Same as Kava.

Same as Amadavat.

In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.

To promote; to assist.

To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.

Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.

Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.

See Avale, v.

To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.

of Availability

That which is available.