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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Caxon

Căx'on, n.

noun

(kăk'sn), n. A wig. [Cant.] Miss Mitford.

Cāx'on, n.

noun

(kăks'ō), n. [Sp. caxon, a box or chest, a quantity of 50 hundred weight of ore, augmentative of caxo, box, case, from Lat. capsa, chest. See CASE.] A chest of ores of any metal that has been burnt, ground, and washed, and is ready to be refined. — Chalmers.