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val 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.

One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.

l with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebræ, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.

See Paxwax.

See Carapace.

Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal.

Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.

A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.

Above or outside of the endoskeleton; epaxial.

Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; -- opposed to episkeletal.

Same as Pax, 2.

Same as Paxwax.

entral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.

The paxwax. See Paxwax.

Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.