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due to deficient aëration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness. -- An`ox*æ"mic, *e"mic (#), a.

A substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

With approximation; so as to approximate; nearly.

The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor.

Approaching; approximate. -- Ap*prox"i*ma*tive*ly, adv. -- Ap*prox"i*ma*tive*ness, n.

One who, or that which, approximates.

Poisoning, or the state of being poisoned, from toxic substances produced within the body; autotoxæmia.

Self-intoxication. See Auto-intoxication.

Pertaining to, or causing, autotoxæmia.

Same as Auto-intoxication.

The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle.

A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.

Same as Dioxide.

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwaft box (B.suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, m…

ented by Lawrence Hargrave, of Sydney, Australia, which consist of two light rectangular boxes, or cells open on two sides, and fastened together horizontally. Called also Hargrave, or cellular, kite.

In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.

A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.

The wintergreern. (Gaultheria procumbens). [Local, U.S.]