sb. Obs. [a. F. axe, ad. L. axis.] By-form of AXIS.
1551. [see AX-TREE 3].
1570. Billingsley, Euclid, II. def. 15. 317. A sphere … may haue infinite diameters, but it can haue but onely one axe.
1752. Bevis, in Phil. Trans., XLVIII. 388. The inclination of the earth’s axe.
1796. Hutton, Math. Dict., I. 178. The chief properties of the Axe-in-peritrochio.
