1. (n.) An aide or helper; something additional and subordinate; as an accessory to a phone, an accessory to a crime\.
2. (a.) accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.