(chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.
(sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
verb
(transitive) To treat with borax.
braxy
braxy
adj
Diseased with braxy.
noun
(now historical) Meat from sheep that have died from this disease, or that have died from accident or disease in general.