axius

[Gr. ἀξία (απία)=dignity.] A genus of Crustaceans of the family Thala inidæ. It contains the Slow Shrimp, A. stirhynchus. ax'-le (le = el), *ax'-el, *ax-ell, *ax'-ýl, * ěx'-yl, * ax ( Eng . ), * ӑx (0. Scotch ), s. [A.S. eaxla shoulder-joint; Icel. öxl ; Lat. axla , dim. of ala = a wing. Cf. O. Fr. ai el , e el. In Sw. & Dan. axel ; Dut. as ; Ger. achse; Sp. exe; Port. eixo , Ital. a e .] [Axis.] axis-aye-aye 1. Lit. The pin or bar in the centre of a wheel around which the wheel itself turns. "And now the twentieth sun, descending, laves His glowing azle in the western waves. Pope: Homer's Ody ey, bk. iv., 487-8. 2. Fig .: The axis of the heavens, around which they seem to revolve. "There view'd the Pleiads, and the Northern Team, And great Orion's more refulgent bean, To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye, Who shines exalted on th' ethereal plain, Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main." Pope : Homer's Ody ey , bk. v., 347-52. axle-tree, *axyl-tre, * exyl-tree, *ax-treo ( Eng .), * ax-tree, * ax-tre (0. Scotch ), s. 1. Lit. The axle of a wheel. their axle - trees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten."-1 Kings vii. 33. 2. Fig .: The axis of the heavens. ". the poles or axle - tree of heaven,..."-Bacon: Adv. of Learn., bk. ii.