Both Uses of
auxiliary
in
Moby Dick
- Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary.†
Chpt 40-42 *
- Like all sea-going ship carpenters, and more especially those belonging to whaling vessels, he was, to a certain off-handed, practical extent, alike experienced in numerous trades and callings collateral to his own; the carpenter's pursuit being the ancient and outbranching trunk of all those numerous handicrafts which more or less have to do with wood as an auxiliary material.†
Chpt 106-108
Definition:
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(auxiliary) functioning in a supporting or backup capacity