English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Auxiliar
(n.)
An auxiliary.
Auxiliaries
(pl. )
of Auxiliary
Auxiliarly
(adv.)
By way of help.
Auxiliary
(a.)
Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting;
subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
Auxiliary
(n.)
A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or
enterprise.
Auxiliary
(n.)
Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war;
(rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
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.
Auxiliary
(sing.)
A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying
or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical
formulae.
Auxiliatory
(a.)
Auxiliary; helping.
Ava
(n.)
Same as Kava.
Avadavat
(n.)
Same as Amadavat.
Avaiably
(adv.)
In an available manner; profitably; advantageously;
efficaciously.
Avail
(v. t.)
To promote; to assist.
Avail
(v. i.)
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.
Avail
(n.)
Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor,
without economy, is of little avail.
Avail
(n.)
Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.
Avail
(v. t. & i.)
See Avale, v.
Avail
(v. t.)
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.
Availabilities
(pl. )
of Availability
Availability
(n.)
That which is available.