(v. t.) To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing.

(v. t.) To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically.

(v. t.) To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.

(v. t.) To fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon; as, eyes affixed upon the ground.

(n.) That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.

(v. t.) To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.

(v. t.) To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater.

(v. t.) To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.

(v. i.) To join; to be united.

(n.) Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.

(n.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.

(n.) A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.

(n.) A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.

(n.) The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.

(n.) A genus of land snails, including a large number of species.

(n.) A book; a manuscript.

(n.) A collection or digest of laws; a code.

(n.) An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament.

(n.) A collection of canons.

(n.) A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair.

(n.) A primitive word, from which spring other words; a radical; a root; an etymon.

(n.) A number or quantity which is arbitrarily made the fundamental number of any system; a base. Thus, 10 is the radix, or base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal system of numeration.

(n.) A finite expression, from which a series is derived.

(n.) The root of a plant.

(pl. ) of Beau

(n.) pl. of Beau.

(pl. ) of Bel-esprit

(v. t.) To fix again or anew; to establish anew.

(n.) A cup. See Calyx.

(n.) The covering of a flower. See Flower.

(n.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.

(n.) A genus of small Insectivora, including the common shrews.

(n.) A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.

(n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.

(n.) To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.

(n.) Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.

(n.) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.

(v. i.) To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.

(v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.

(v. i.) To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.

(n.) Relaxation.

(a.) Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.

(n.) Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.

(n.) That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.

(n.) That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist.

(n.) A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; -- usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume.

(n.) A prologue indicating what follows.

(n.) The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger.

(n.) The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent.

(v. t.) To provide with an index or table of references; to put into an index; as, to index a book, or its contents.

(n.) One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, / Oryx, nasomaculatus).

(v. t.) To mix again or repeatedly.

(n.) A genus of trees or shrubs including the willow, osier, and the like, growing usually in wet grounds.

(n.) A tree or shrub of any kind of willow.

(n.) A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceae; the sedges.

(n.) A genus of dipterous insects, including the gnat and mosquito.

(v. t.) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart.

(v. t.) To implant or fix; to instill; to inculcate, as principles, thoughts, or instructions; as, to infix good principles in the mind, or ideas in the memory.

(n.) Something infixed.

(n.) A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein.

(n.) One of the prominent ridges or ribs extending across each of the whorls of certain univalve shells.

(n.) A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation.

(v. t.) To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.

(n. sing. & pl.) See Dakotas.

(a.) Bending down; sloping.

(n.) Devexity.

(n.) A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. See Illust. of Sand wasp, under Sand.

(v. t.) To fix; to fasten; to establish.

(v. t.) To inclose, as in a box; to imbox.

(n.) One of the flutings of a column.

(n.) Any animal of the genus Hyrax, of which about four species are known. They constitute the order Hyracoidea. The best known species are the daman (H. Syriacus) of Palestine, and the klipdas (H. capensis) of South Africa. Other species are H. arboreus and H. Sylvestris, the former from Southern, and the latter from Western, Africa. See Daman.

(v. t.) To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections.

(v. t.) To make fluid; to dissolve.

(v. t.) To mix; to mingle.

(v. t.) To mingle with something else; to mix.

(n.) A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or purple flowers.

(n.) A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet.

(v. t.) To remove from a box or boxes.

(n.) A genus of parasitic insects including the fleas. See Flea.

(n.) A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug.

(v. t.) Alt. of Malaxate

(n.) A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.