*xen*

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 ]

a. Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Gr. kako`s bad + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; guest. ] (Min.) A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; hospitable. So named because it contains a number of rare elements. ] (Min.) A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. exenteratus, p. p. of exenterare; cf. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; out + &unr_; intestine. ] To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. exenteratio. ] Act of exenterating. [ R. ] [ 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. [ Gr. "e`x six.] (Chem.) Same as Hexylene. [1913 Webster]

n. See Cacoxene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Leuco- + Gr. xe`nos stranger. ] (Min.) A nearly opaque white mineral, in part identical with titanite, observed in some igneous rocks as the result of the alteration of titanic iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. mixen, myxen, fr. meohx, meox, dung, filth; akin to E. mist. See Mist. ] A compost heap; a dunghill. Chaucer. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. &unr_;; &unr_; before + &unr_; a guest, stranger: cf. F. proxène. ] (Gr. Antiq.) An officer who had the charge of showing hospitality to those who came from a friendly city or state. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. proxeneta, Gr. &unr_;. ] A negotiator; a factor. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; agent + -ism; cf. F. proxénétisme. ] The action of a go-between or broker in negotiating immoral bargains between the sexes; procuring. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. pyroxène, from Gr. &unr_; fire + &unr_; a stranger; -- so called because it was supposed to the be a stranger, or of rare occurrence, in igneous rocks, ] (Min.) A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90°, and also in massive forms which are often laminated. It varies in color from white to dark green and black, and includes many varieties differing in color and composition, as diopside, malacolite, salite, coccolite, augite, etc. They are all silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron. Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks, especially basic igneous rocks, as basalt, gabbro, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The pyroxene group contains pyroxene proper, also the related orthorhombic species, enstatite, bronzite, hypersthene, and various monoclinic and triclinic species, as rhodonite, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. pyroxénique. ] Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sexennium a period of six years, sexennis of six years; sex six + annus a year. See Six, and Annual. ] Lasting six years, or happening once in six years. -- n. A sexennial event. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Once in six years. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Thiophene + xylene. ] (Chem.) Any one of three possible metameric substances, which are dimethyl derivatives of thiophene, like the xylenes from benzene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. fixen a she-fox, for fyxen, fem. of fox. See Fox. ] 1. A female fox. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cross, ill-tempered person; -- formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

She was a vixen when she went to school. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a vixen; vixenish. Barrow. [ 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 ]

{ } n. [ AS. wuduweaxe. ] (Bot.) Same as Woadwaxen. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. p. p. of Wax. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The suborder of mammals including the armadillos, American anteaters, and sloths.
Syn. -- suborder Xenarthra. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. xenhlasi`a expulsion of strangers. ] (Gr. Antiq.) A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

pr. n. A natural family of birds comprising the New Zealand wrens, synonymous with Acanthisittidae.
Syn. -- family Xenicidae, Acanthisittidae, family Acanthisittidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pr. n. The type genus for the bird family Xenicidae.
Syn. -- genus Xenicus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Xenia [ L., from Gr. xe`nion gift to a guest, fr. xe`nos guest. ] (Class. Antiq.) A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign ambassador. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL., fr. L. xenodochium a building for the reception of strangers, Gr. xenodochei^on . ] (a) (Class. Antiq.) A house for the reception of strangers. (b) In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [ Called also Xenodocheion. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. xenodochi`a. ] Reception of strangers; hospitality. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. xe`nos strange, foreign + ga`mos marriage. ] (Bot.) Cross fertilization. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. xe`nos a stranger + E. genesis. ] (Biol.) (a) Same as Heterogenesis. (b) The fancied production of an organism of one kind by an organism of another. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to xenogenesis; as, the xenogenetic origin of microzymes. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. xe`nos strange + E. mania. ] A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc. [ R. ] Saintsbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. xe`nos strange. ] (Zool.) A suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which the blackfish of Alaska (Dallia pectoralis) is the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. xe`non, neut. of xe`nos strange. ] (Chem.) A very heavy, inert gaseous element of the noble gas group, occurring in the atmosphere in the proportion of one volume is about 20 millions. It was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1898. It can be condensed to a liquid boiling at -107° C., and to a solid which melts at -111.9° C. Symbol Xe (formerly also X); atomic number 54; atomic weight 131.3. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. xe`nos strange + &unr_;, dim. of &unr_; a wing. ] (Zool.) A suborder of fishes including Gobiesox and allied genera. These fishes have soft-rayed fins, and a ventral sucker supported in front by the pectoral fins. They are destitute of scales. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. xeno`timos honoring guests or strangers; xe`nos guest, stranger + timh` honor: cf. G. xenotim. ] (Min.) A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. xe`nos strange + o'yra` tail. ] (Zool.) A cabassou. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. xe`nos strange + -yl. ] (Chem.) The radical characteristic of xenylic compounds. [ 1913 Webster ]