Auxiliary
(Aux*il"ia*ry), n.; pl. Auxiliaries
1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
2. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
3. (Gram.) 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; être and avoir, in
French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.
4. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations
or trigonometrical formulæ. Math. Dict.
Auxiliatory
(Aux*il"ia*to*ry) a. Auxiliary; helping. [Obs.]
Ava
(||A"va) n. Same as Kava. Johnston.
Avadavat
(Av`a*da*vat") n. Same as Amadavat.
Avail
(A*vail") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Availed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Availing.] [OE. availen, fr. F. (L. ad) +
valoir to be worth, fr. L. valere to be strong, to be worth. See Valiant.]
1. 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.
O, what avails me now that honor high !
Milton.
2. To promote; to assist. [Obs.] Pope.
To avail one's self of, to make use of; take advantage of.
Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names.
Milton.
I have availed myself of the very first opportunity.
Dickens.
