See Also: oleograph(medicine)

taxed (iou) and oleograph (medicine)


taxed (iou)



taxed ppl adjective. [takst] L15.
[from TAX verb + -ED1.]
That has been taxed; spec. (of a motor vehicle) having had excise duty paid for the current period.
taxed cart (obsolete exc. Hist.) a two-wheeled (orig. springless) one-horse open cart, used mainly for agricultural or trade purposes, on which excise duty was reduced or remitted. taxed ward Scots Law (now Hist.) in land tenure, a wardship in which a fixed annual sum was paid to the superior in lieu of the whole profits.
? Earlier in UNTAXED.

oleograph (medicine)


oleograph


1. <chemistry> The form or figure assumed by a drop of oil when placed upon water or some Other liquid with which it does not mix.

2. A picture produced in oils by a process analogous to that of lithographic printing.

Origin: L. Oleum oil + -graph.

Source: Websters Dictionary