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, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance. If he plead proximity of blood That empty title is with ease withstood. Dryden.

In the next month after the present; -- often contracted to prox.; as, on the 3d proximo.

o act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity. I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself. Burke.

The office or agency of a proxy.

A false opinion or doctrine. "To maintain the atheistical pseudodox which judgeth evil good, and darkness light." T. Adams.

A greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found with pyocyanin in pus.

A yellow crystalline hydrocardon extracted from crude wood spirit; -- called also eblanin.

ite, 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.

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

See Pyroxylic, -yl.

Derived from wood by distillation; -- formerly used in designating crude wood spirit.

hat it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; -- called also pyroxyle.

A tetroxide. [R.]

of complex nitrogenous bases obtained by the union of certain aniline derivatives with glyoxal or with certain ketones. [Written also chinoxaline.]

The hypothetical radical of certain quinone derivatives related to rhodizonic acid.

A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.

A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.

A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child. Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan, And prate not here! A. Brewer.

The thrasher shark. See Thrasher.