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▪ I. † caxon1|ˈkæksən|
[? from the personal surname Caxon.]
A kind of wig, now obsolete.
1756Cawthorn Poems (1771) 77 Though that trim artist, barber Jackson, Spent a whole hour about your caxon. 1762Gentl. Mag. 233 I've let my hair grow, and have thrown off my caxon. 1791Huddesford Salmag. 111 The worthies at Rag Fair old caxons who barter. 1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 34 The caxon worn by the then Archbishop of Canterbury. 1834Southey Doctor cxii. (1862) 270 A wig which, with all proper respect,..I cannot but honestly denominate a caxon.
▪ II. ‖ caxon2 ? Obs.
[OSp. caxon, now cajon (kaˈxon), augm. of caxa, now caja case, chest; cf. Fr. caisson caisson, It. casone cassoon.]
A case or chest of ores prepared to be refined.
1669Earl of Sandwich tr. Barba's Art Mettals ii. xii. 37 He shall certainly know what Silver the Caxon contains. Ibid. 40 How much materials they are to put into a Caxon or Chest. 1674Phil. Trans. IX. 212 What he is to do before he incorporates the Caxon for refining. 1775in Ash; and in mod. technical Dicts.
¶ A misprint of this as caxou in Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1753, is copied by Todd and later Dicts. |