Obs. Mediæval Latin name of the badger: formerly sometimes used in English.
1535. Coverdale, Ezek. xvi. 10. I made the shues of Taxus lether.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 104 b. Of Taxus or the Badger.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades, III. v. (1592), 340. Three couerings more, the vppermost whereof was of Taxus leather, wel able in rain to keep water out.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Taxus, in zoology, the name of the badger.
