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A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.

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.

The seed of the flax; linseed.

See Toadflax.

Like flax; flaxen. Sir M. Sandys.

rless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin.

A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.

The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars. Nichol.

A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.

Same as Hemothorax.

An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.

Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.

A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke. Macaulay.

One who hoaxes.

t kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See under Promorphology.

Same as Homotaxis.

Relating to homotaxis.

Similarly in arrangement of parts; -- the opposite of heterotaxy.

Same as Homotaxis.

An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.