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Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.

Any animal of the genus Hyrax, of which about four species are known. They constitute the order Hyracoidea. The best known species are the daman (H. Syriacus) of Palestine, and the klipdas (H. capensis) of South Africa. Other species are H. arboreus and H. Sylvestris, the former from Southern, and the latter from Weste…

Situated below the axil, as a bud.

Under the lower jaw; submaxillary; as, the inframaxillary nerve.

Situated in an interaxis. Gwilt.

Situated within or between the axils of leaves.

The space between two axes. See Axis, 6. The doors, windows, niches, and the like, are then placed centrally in the interaxes. Gwilt.

See Premaxilla.

An intermaxilla.

Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem.

A stone mason's tool, having a flat face and a pointed part. Knight.

Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber. The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy. Ray.

The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened.

Having a tendency to loosen or relax. Milton.

The quality of being laxative.

That which loosens; -- esp., a muscle which by its contraction loosens some part.

The state or quality of being lax; want of tenseness, strictness, or exactness.

The state or quality of being lax; want of tenseness, strictness, or exactness.

In a lax manner.

The state of being lax; laxity.