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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Declare :: Declare (v. t.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc..
Assessable :: Assessable (a.) Liable to be assessed or taxed; as, assessable property..
Squint :: Squint (v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
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.
Questor :: Questor (n.) An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state..
Solute :: Solute (a.) Relaxed; hence; merry; cheerful.
Oppressive :: Oppressive (a.) Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law..
Bevel Gear :: Bevel gear () A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet..
Squint :: Squint (a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2..
Relax :: Relax (n.) Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind..
Abscissa :: Abscissa (n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes..
Waxed :: Waxed (imp.) of Wa.
Distress :: Distress (n.) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc..
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..
Interaxes :: Interaxes (pl. ) of Interaxi.
Wood-waxen :: Wood-waxen (n.) Same as Woadwaxen.
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..
Myeloplaxes :: Myeloplaxes (pl. ) of Myelopla.
Broadax Broadaxe :: Broadax Broadaxe (n.) An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.
Pinacoid :: Pinacoid (n.) A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.
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