Also 6–8 auxunge, 7–8 (L.). axungia. [a. F. axunge (mod. axonge), ad. L. axungia, f. axis axle + ung-ĕre to grease.] The rich internal fat of the kidneys, etc., especially that of geese and pigs; goose-grease, lard; also gen. fat, grease. † Axungiety = prec. Axungious a., lard-like, greasy. Axungiousness = AXUNGE.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg. The one [maner of greas] is withoutforth nere to the skynne, and that proprely is called adeps or fatnes. And ye other is inwarde and nyghe to the bely, and proprely is called auxunge or fat grease.
1611. Panegyr. V., in Coryat’s Crudities. There where S. Nicolas knights [i.e., men who have been hanged] not long before Had dropt their fat axungia to the lee.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 271. The axunge of cart wheeles.
1754. Smellie, Midwif., I. Introd. 36. Lubricated with oil or auxunge.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, 278. Axunge, hog’s lard.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physic, 40/2. Take the Axungietye of a Goose. Ibid., 45/1. Take the axungiousnes of a little boare-pigge.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. xxvi. (1686), 139. An axungious and thicker part subsiding.
