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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Accessory

/(#; 277)/ · Ac·ces·so·ry · IPA /əkˈsɛs.(ə.)ɹi/
01 a. Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing …
  1. 1.
    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.
Syn. Accompanying; contributory; auxiliary; subsidiary; subservient; additional; acceding.
02 n. That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
pl. Accessories
  1. 1.
    That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
  2. 2.
    Same as Accessary, n.(Law) See: Accessary
  3. 3.
    Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.(Fine Arts)
Syn. Abettor; accomplice; ally; coadjutor. See Abettor.