‖ n. [ NL.; Gr.
‖ n. [ NL. See Auto-, and Toxæmia. ] (Physiol.) Self-intoxication. See Auto-intoxication. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s); -- sometimes used for any adolescent girl, especially one following the latest youthful fashion .
adj.
a. Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (
The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who packs boxes. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who boxes; a pugilist. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A breed of dog. [ PJC ]
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n. A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
n. Behavior like that of a fox; cunning. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. pl. (Ethnol.) See Fox, n., 7. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Cacoxene. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Leuco- + Gr.
n. [ Ox + eye. ]
Creeping oxeye (Bot.)
Seaside oxeye (Bot.),
a. Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ NL., fr. Gr.
☞ It exists in several forms, some of which are winged, other wingless. One form produces galls on the leaves and twigs, another affects the roots, causing galls or swellings, and often killing the vine. [ 1913 Webster ]
prop. n. A natural family consisting of the plant lice.
n. [ Cf. &unr_;; &unr_; before + &unr_; a guest, stranger: cf. F. proxène. ] (Gr. Antiq.) An officer who had the charge of showing hospitality to those who came from a friendly city or state. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. proxeneta, Gr. &unr_;. ] A negotiator; a factor. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; agent + -ism; cf. F. proxénétisme. ] The action of a go-between or broker in negotiating immoral bargains between the sexes; procuring. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ F. pyroxène, from Gr. &unr_; fire + &unr_; a stranger; -- so called because it was supposed to the be a stranger, or of rare occurrence, in igneous rocks, ] (Min.) A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90°, and also in massive forms which are often laminated. It varies in color from white to dark green and black, and includes many varieties differing in color and composition, as diopside, malacolite, salite, coccolite, augite, etc. They are all silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron. Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks, especially basic igneous rocks, as basalt, gabbro, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The pyroxene group contains pyroxene proper, also the related orthorhombic species, enstatite, bronzite, hypersthene, and various monoclinic and triclinic species, as rhodonite, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. pyroxénique. ] Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Min.) A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Thiophene + xylene. ] (Chem.) Any one of three possible metameric substances, which are dimethyl derivatives of thiophene, like the xylenes from benzene. [ 1913 Webster ]
obs. p. p. of Wax. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]