1. (n.) An aide or helper; something additional and subordinate; as an accessory to a phone, an accessory to a crime.
2. (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.
3. (n.) Same as Accessary.
4. (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.
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