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To ask; to inquire or inquire of.

r handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.

[See Axial.] [R.]

See Ax, Axman.

Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis. To take on an axial, and not an equatorial, direction. Nichol.

In relation to, or in a line with, an axis; in the axial (magnetic) line.

The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs. Gray.

Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed. Gray.

An axil.

Axillary.

Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.

Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.

A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

A species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet.

ome art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. "Axiomatical truth." Johnson. The stores of axiomatic wisdom. I. Taylor.

By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom.

The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes.