Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling flax; flaxen.

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Examples

  • There goes the blackwatchwomen, all in white, flaxed up, pur-gad!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Joscelin tugged at his flaxed thatch, and loosed a sharp bay of laughter.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • She was but two steps behind Joscelin now, she could have stretched out her hand and touched his unkempt flaxed hair, but she was afraid of shattering his braced attention.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • Joscelin tugged at his flaxed thatch, and loosed a sharp bay of laughter.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • She was but two steps behind Joscelin now, she could have stretched out her hand and touched his unkempt flaxed hair, but she was afraid of shattering his braced attention.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • "You're flaxed ag'in, pardner!" he said, with a light laugh, as he raked in the stakes.

    Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

  • While she was issuing orders, Tabitha flaxed blithely about the little kitchen, lighting the fire, hunting up cooking utensils, and beginning the process of making chocolate pie, leaving Gloriana to wrestle with the mysteries of a raisin gingerbread.

    Tabitha's Vacation Ruth Alberta Brown

  • Great Western, as they flaxed round getting up a directors 'meeting, so as to have a real, live directorate of this great transcontinental line for the wolves of Wall Street to do business with!

    Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893

  • And, by jucks! fer all he wouldn't take even the advantage of a starter, he flaxed it to Wes the fust game in less'n fifteen minutes.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • But all to onct Curly took to lookin 'flaxed, an' the judge here overheard Scrabblegrab askin '

    Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881

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