Definition of axe

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Axe (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or 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..

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Expenitor :: Expenitor (n.) A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers..
Wood-wash :: Wood-wash (n.) Alt. of Wood-waxe.
Strabotomy :: Strabismus (n.) An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye..
Pressure :: Pressure (n.) A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization..
Taxed :: Taxed (imp. & p. p.) of Ta.
Excise :: Excise (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system..
Orthometric :: Orthometric (a.) Having the axes at right angles to one another; -- said of crystals or crystalline forms.
Relax :: Relax (n.) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels..
Coordinate :: Coordinate (n.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See Abscissa..
Coaxer :: Coaxer (n.) One who coaxes.
Poenamu :: Poenamu (n.) A variety of jade or nephrite, -- used in New Zealand for the manufacture of axes and weapons..
Macropinacoid :: Macropinacoid (n.) One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.
Levy :: Levy (n.) The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution..
Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.
Farm :: Farm (v. t.) To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes..
Cadaster :: Cadaster (n.) An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property.
Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions..
Levy :: Levy (n.) The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc..
Arrear :: Arrear (n.) That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes..
Flaxen :: Flaxen (a.) Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair..
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