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; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward.

An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.

A stem structure or stem axis of a plant, viewed as a whole. -- Cau*lom"ic (#), a.

A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.

A census; -- also, a public rate or tax. [Obs.] Howell. Bacon.

A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.

uring the area or the volume generated by the rotation of a line or surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle that every figure formed by the revolution of a line or surface about such an axis has for measure the product of the line or surface by the length of the path of its center of gravity; -- someti…

The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

Relating to the long axis of the body.

Having the texture and color of new wax; like wax; waxy.

Covered with wax.

To wax; to cover or close with wax. Wiseman.

riacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag.

A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. Linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth. Bacon.

Waxen; like wax. [Obs.] Gayton.

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

Producing wax.

A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol. Watts.

A writing on wax. Knight.