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The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

That variety of xylene, or dimethyl benzene, in which the two methyl groups occupy the meta position with reference to each other. It is a colorless inf

Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; as, monaxial development.

Having more than one axis; developing in more than a single line or plain; -- opposed to Ant: monoaxial.

One of the huge multinucleated cells found in the marrow of bone and occasionally in other parts; a giant cell. See Osteoclast.

See Axis cylinder, under Axis.

Of or pertaining to the occipital bone and second vertebra, or axis.

The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic…

The treatment of deformities in the human body by mechanical appliances.

To tax or to task too heavily.

To wax or grow too rapindly or too much. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester.

Same as Paxwax.

s seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun. Annual parallax, the greatest value of the heliocentric parallax, or the greatest annual apparent change of place of a body as seen from the earth and sun; as, the annual parallax of a fixed star. -- Binocular parallax, the apparent differenc…

An unlawful meeting.

after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax. Brande & C.

A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.

On either side of the axis of the skeleton.

A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor with zinc chloride. It is one of the three metamers of xylene. Cf. Metamer, and Xylene.

al times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc. Kiss the pax, and be quiet like your neighbors. Chapman.

Resembling a little stake.