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Faxed

//fækst// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a head of hair; hairy. obsolete

    "A comet is a ‘faxed’ star, that is, a hairy, a tailed star. But ‘faxed’ got corrupted into ‘fixed’ star during the seventeenth century."

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of fax form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English *faxed, from Old English feaxed, ġefeaxed (“haired; having hair”), from Old English feax (“hair”). More at fax.

Etymology 2

From fax (“to send a fax/facsimile”).

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