Helping; aiding; assisting; giving support or succor; hence, subsidiary; additional: as, auxiliary troops; auxiliary engines.n. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action, enterprise, or undertaking; an aid of any kind.n. Specifically—2. plural Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war.n. In grammar, a verb used in forming, with the infinitive and participles of other verbs, phrases having the value of, or a value analogous to that of, modes and tenses: thus, I do love, I have loved, I shall love, I am loved.n. In mathematics, an auxiliary quantity (which see, under I.).n. In the nomenclature of the sutural inflections in the ammonoid cephalopods, a lobe or saddle lying between the umbilical curve or line of involution and the second lateral lobe.n. In mech., any machine except the principal one: a term applied specifically to the feed-pumps, fire-pumps, etc., in power plants.n. A vessel fitted with power other than sails for propulsion but depending ordinarily on the latter.