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▪ I. coax, n.2|ˈkəʊæks|
[Abbrev. of coaxial a.]
Coaxial cable or line (see coaxial a. 2 c). Also coax cable.
1945Electronics Industries Sept. 93 Coax dry load, a sand-carbon mixture in cable to act as dummy load. 1957Practical Wireless XXXIII. 724/1 (caption) The simple coax-fed dipole. 1967Electronics 6 Mar. 15/1 (Advt.), Microdot makes connectors, as a matter of fact, the best microminiature coax connectors in the industry. 1976Perkowski & Stral Joy of CB x. 114 The most pleasing installations are those where the coax is entirely hidden from view. 1982Giant Bk. Electronics Projects ii. 96 Connect your piece of coax cable to J2. 1987Ham Radio Today Jan. 58/3 Power for the camera can be supplied by feeding it up the coax.
▪ II. coax, v.|kəʊks|
Forms: 6–8 cokes, 7–8 coaks, (6 coxe, 7 coques), 8– coax.
[f. cokes n. According to Johnson 1755–73, ‘a low word’, and probably in vulgar use long before it became usual in literature, which may account for want of literary evidence for the early history of the senses. The original meaning seems to have been ‘make a cokes of’: cf. to fool, to pet, to gull; and the transition from ‘make a fool of’ to ‘make a pet of’, is paralleled by the passage of fond from ‘befooled’ to its present sense.]
†1. trans. To make a ‘cokes’ of, befool, impose upon, ‘take in’. Obs.
[Cf.1616B. Jonson Devil is an Ass ii. i. (Speech 68), Why, we will make a Cokes of thee Wise Master, We will, my mistress, an absolute fine Cokes!] c1679Roxb. Ballads VII. 9 We tell them 'tis not a penny we can take: We plead poverty before we have need, And thus we do coaks them most bravely indeed. 1806Med. & Ph. Jrnl. (1807) 132 That practitioners would pay a little more attention to those authors who are out of fashion and laid upon the shelf, and not suffer themselves to be coaxed by an old practice in a modern garb.
†2.
a. To make a pet of; to pet, fondle, caress; to treat endearingly or with blandishment. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. viii. (Arb.) 36 Princes may giue a good Poet such conuenient countenaunce and also benefite as are due to an excellent artificer, though they neither kisse nor cokes them. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Dadée, Souffrir à vn enfant toutes ses dadées, to cocker or cokes it; to make a feddle or wanton of it. 1668R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. iv. (1708) 98 Some I saw Caressing and Cokesing their Husbands, in the very moment they design'd to betray them. 1678A. Behn Sir P. Fancy iii. ii, For my sake, dear, pardon him this one time [cokesing him]. 1694R. L'Estrange Fables ccxix. (1714) 238 The Nurse..had chang'd her Note; for she was then Muzzling and Cokesing of it. 1794Southey Botany-Bay Eclog. ii, They kiss'd me, coax'd me, robb'd me, and betray'd me. 1831Cat's Tail 25 Those tender attentions, that coaxing and coddling.
†b. to coax up: to cocker up, coddle up. Obs.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 48 They soothe up your passions, and cokes up your humors. 1683[see coaxing vbl. n.].
3. a. To influence or persuade by caresses, flattery, or blandishment. Johnson says ‘To wheedle, to flatter, to humour: a low word’; cf. quot. 1663.
1663Flagellum; or O. Cromwell (1672) 159 And sometimes to cokes the neighbouring Rusticks, give them a Buck he had hunted. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 248 ‘He try to coax me,’ said Beatte, ‘but I say no—we must part’. 1875McLaren Serm. Ser. ii. vii. 122 A wholesome obstinancy in the right that will neither be bribed nor coaxed nor bullied.
b. Const. to do a thing; into an action, etc.
1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) x. xlvi, Dragging the table..over an uneven floor, in hopes of coaxing it to stand on more than two legs. 1833H. Martineau Manch. Strike x. 111 She coaxed her father into giving them a ball. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VI. lii. 270 It was Seneca's principle..to coax, rather than drive, his pupil into virtue. 1862Union 11 Apr. 230, I succeeded in coaxing Papa..to allow me to teach in the school.
c. With various other extensions, as to coax away, coax down, coax forth, coax up: to persuade or entice to go or come away, etc.; to coax (a thing) out of (a person): to get it out of him by coaxing.
1700J. A. Astry tr. Saavedra-Faxardo II. 101 Women..coaks them out of their Husbands, and so tell 'em again to others; as it was in that secret which Maximus told his wife. a1839Praed Poems (1864) I. 342 They coaxed away the beldame's wrath. 1859Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. II. lxxxvii. 56 Are these men to be coaxed down by ginger⁓bread? 1889Amélie Rives Quick or Dead? (Rtldg.) 20 An old spinet..from which Miss Fridiswig used to coax forth ghastly jinkings..on Sunday afternoons.
d. To urge (a thing) by gentle means.
1841S. Warren Ten Thou. a Year I. vii, After coaxing up the fire, I will proceed to tell you. 1866Meredith Vittoria xxiv, Angelo knelt and coaxed the fire.
†4. To persuade to believe (to be, etc.); to flatter or wheedle into the belief. Obs.
1676Marvell Mr. Smirke Wks. 1875 IV. 69 So the Exposer would now cokes the lay multitude, whom before he call'd ‘the hundred thousands’, and for their simplicity ‘excusable from subscribing the Thirty-nine Articles’, to be grown on the suddain so very wise men, that, etc.
5. intr. To employ coaxing.
1706Farquhar Recruiting Off. i. i, I coax! I wheedle! I'm above it. 1784New Spectator XII. 1/2 What with palming one fellow, kissing another, and coaxing with thousands, [she] has driven me almost horn-mad. 1878Masque Poets 52 The gentlest..plead and coax For the sad strange story of Jasper Oakes.
▪ III. coax, n.|kəʊks|
[f. prec. vb.: see also cokes.]
1. colloq. One who coaxes.
1863Ouida Held in Bondage (1870) 6 He was gentle enough to a coax.
2. A coaxing speech or appeal. nonce-use.
1829Marryat F. Mildmay i. (D.), He held out by turns coaxes and threats. |
