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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Verb \Verb\, n. [F. verbe, L. verbum a word, verb. See Word.] 1. A word; a vocable. [Obs.] --South. [1913 Webster] 2. (Gram.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action. [1913 Webster] Note: A verb is a word whereby the chief action of the mind [the assertion or the denial of a proposition] finds expression. --Earle. [1913 Webster] Active verb, Auxiliary verb, Neuter verb, etc. See Active, Auxiliary, Neuter, etc. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Auxiliary \Aux*il"ia*ry\, n.; pl. Auxiliaries. 1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force. [1913 Webster] 3. (Gram.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; [^e]tre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish. [1913 Webster] 4. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formul[ae]. --Math. Dict. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

auxiliary verb n 1: a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with