Definition of 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.
- n. - That which belongs to something else deemed the
principal; something additional and subordinate.
- n. - Same as Accessary, n.
- n. - Anything that enters into a work of art without being
indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.
- 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.
- n. - That which belongs to something else deemed the
principal; something additional and subordinate.
- n. - Same as Accessary, n.
- n. - Anything that enters into a work of art without being
indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.