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A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.

Gray. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Melancholy; atrabilious.

the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. Atrabiliary arteries, capsules, and veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins.

Auxiliary. [Archaic] The auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear. Pope.

By way of help. Harris.

Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. -- Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.

Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.

Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. "Smooth as is a billiard ball." B. Jonson.

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

The commander or chief of a thousand men.

A body consisting of a thousand men. Mitford.

ng to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.

A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. [Obs.] Bailey.

Of or pertaining to, or issued by, a council. Jer. Taylor.

A member of a household; a domestic.

pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family. The personal and domiciliary rights of the citizen scrupulously guarded. Motley. Domiciliary visit (Law), a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for searching it, under authority.

Of or pertaining to a family; domestic. "Familiar feuds." Byron.

The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.

The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.