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One who is assessed and pays a tax.

Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.

Having four branches diverging at right angles; -- said of certain spicules of sponges.

g to, or connected with, the regulation of temperature in the animal body; as, the thermotaxic nervous system.

The property possessed by protoplasm of moving under the influence of heat.

The property possessed by living protoplasm of contracting, and thus moving, when touched by a solid or fluid substance.

iculate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.

An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves.

ving narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.

Taxed too little, or at a lower rate than others.

Uniaxial. -- U`ni*ax"al*ly, adv.

Having but one optic axis, or line of no double refraction.

In a uniaxial manner.

An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear with increased recoil, and against the front wall of the gas chamber, checking th…

s, of all calibers, manufactured by the combined firms of Vickers' Sons of Sheffield and Maxim of Birmingham and elsewhere, England.

o increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; - - opposed to wane. The waxing and the waning of the moon. Hakewill. Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane. P. Plowman.

The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See Bayberry, and Candleberry tree.

and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds.

The waxwing.

Made of wax. "The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells." Milton.