† faxed, a. Obs.
[f. prec. + -ed2; cf. ON. faxiðr.]
Having hair, hairy. faxed star: a comet, from the resemblance of its tail to hair.
| 891 O.E. Chron. (Parker MS.), Same men cweþaþ on Englisc þæt hit [cometa] sie feaxede steorra. a 1259 Matthew Paris Chron. Maj. an. 891 (Rolls) I. 428 Cometa apparuit quæ Anglice Vexede sterre nuncupatur. [1605 Camden Rem. (1636) 26 The old English..could call a Comet a Fixed [sic] starre; which is all one with Stella crinita.] 1851 Cumbrld. Gloss., Faxed Star. |