† Faxed

a. Obs. [f. prec. + -ED²; cf. ON. faxiðr.] Having hair, hairy. Faxed star: a comet, from the resemblance of its tail to hair.

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891. O. E. Chron. (Parker MS.). Same men cweþaþ on Englisc þæt hit [cometa] sie feaxede steorra.

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a. 1259. Matthew Paris, Chron. Maj., an. 891 (Rolls), I. 428. Cometa apparuit quæ Anglice Vexede sterre nuncupatur.

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[1605. Camden, Rem. (1636), 26. The old English … could call a Comet a Fixed [sic] starre; which is all one with Stella crinita.]

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1851. Cumbrld. Gloss., Faxed Star.

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