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Auxiliary troops or reënforcements. "My promised supply of horsemen." Shak.

Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. [Obs.] Shak.

One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.

A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water.

As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. Thus, in first person, "I will" denotes willingness, consent, promise; and when "will" is emphasized, it denotes determination or fixed purpose; as, I will go if you wish; I will go at all hazards. In the second and third persons, the idea of disti…

Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will.