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Near to the maxilla or jawbone.

Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence. H. Spencer.

Adminicular.

A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

Axillary; in the fork or axil. Gray.

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak.

Easily alarmed or disturbed.

Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

In an alarmed manner.

Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv.

One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay.

See Alarm. [Now Poetic]

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.

The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.

Pertaining to the alula.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.

Alveolar. [R.]

Resembling an ampulla.

Containing no angle. [R.]

. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam.