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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Diversion :: Diversion (n.) That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth..
Interaxes :: Interaxes (pl. ) of Interaxi.
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..
Waxen :: Waxen (a.) Made of wax.
Scot-free :: Scot-free (a.) Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe..
Squint :: Squint (n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
Cereous :: Cereous (a.) Waxen; like wax.
Woad-waxen :: Woad-waxen (n.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen..
Equalize :: Equalize (v. t.) To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes..
Collectorship :: Collectorship (n.) The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
Axes :: Axes (pl. ) of Axi.
Graspless :: Graspless (a.) Without a grasp; relaxed.
Orthometric :: Orthometric (a.) Having the axes at right angles to one another; -- said of crystals or crystalline forms.
Anorthic :: Anorthic (a.) Having unequal oblique axes; as, anorthic crystals..
Relaxation :: Relaxation (n.) The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law..
Quadrant :: Quadrant (n.) One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.
Jack :: Jack (n.) A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack.
Isometrical :: Isometrical (a.) Noting, or conforming to, that system of crystallization in which the three axes are of equal length and at right angles to each other; monometric; regular; cubic. Cf. Crystallization..
Tax :: Tax (n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government..
Macropinacoid :: Macropinacoid (n.) One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.
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