*axe*

{ etc. } See Ax, Axman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. raised under sterile conditions; -- of experimental animals; as, axenic conditions. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. pure or completely free of the presence of other organisms; -- used of cultures of microorganisms; as, an axenic culture.
Syn. -- uncontaminated; germ-free. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a vitamin essential for normal vision (C20H30O); it prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes; same as vitamin A. One U.S.P. unit of vitamin A is equivalent to 0.30 micrograms of pure vitamin A alcohol.
Syn. -- vitamin A; vitamin A alcohol; antiophthalmic factor; biosterol; retinol; A. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ } n. (Mil.) A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a West Indian timber tree (Sloanea jamaicensis) having very hard wood.
Syn. -- breakax. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. 1. An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who coaxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. feaxede haired, fr. feax hair. Cf. Paxwax. ] Hairy. [ Obs. ] amden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who hoaxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } pos>n. [ So called from Lochaber, in Scotland. ] A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ A corruption of OE. pikois, pikeis, F. picois, fr. pic. See Pick, n. ] A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To fell with or as if with a poleax; -- often used figuratively; as, the entire department was poleaxed after the takeover. [ WordNet 1.5 + PJC ]

2. Stunned; astonished;; as, we couldn't speak, poleaxed by the sight in fronnt fo us. [ PJC ]

{ } n. [ OE. pollax; cf. OD. pollexe. See Poll head, and Ax. ] Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The American badger. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; (?) + -poda. ] (Paleon.) An order of extinct Mammalia found in the Tertiary formations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who taxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed. [ Camb. Univ., Eng. ] [ Written also taxor. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Taxed too little, or at a lower rate than others. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Made of wax. “The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men have marble, women waxen, minds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Waxen chatterer (Zool.), the Bohemian chatterer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Wood-wax. ] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen. [ 1913 Webster ]