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Taxis

noun

A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism.

The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part.

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"Taxis" Quotes from Famous Books

... use taxis much in N' York, sir," commented the driver. "Fact is, they mostly can't afford 'em, but I do happen to know where one old gentleman lives, an' he's sure to be home, because he's crippled something ...

— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy

... passer-by, "What is loose? What is it?" Ramshack taxis, similar to the one in which we had driven, forced their way as best they could through the crowded thoroughfare, moving evidently in the direction ...

— The Hohenzollerns in America - With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and other impossibilities • Stephen Leacock

... offensive eyes had made her forget the almost immediate future in the quite immediate present. But the hotel, with light-hearted taxis tearing up to it, brought remembrance with a shock. She envied everyone else who was bound for the Savoy, even old women, and fat gentlemen with large noses. They were going there because they wanted to go, for their pleasure. Nobody in the world could ...

— The Second Latchkey • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... tired of the Big Town—tired of its noises and hullabaloo; tired of being tagged by taxis as we cross a street; tired of watching grocers and butchers hoisting higher the highest cost of living—that's our cue to grab a choo-choo and breeze out to Uncle Peter Grant's farm and bungalow in the wilds of Westchester, ...

— You Should Worry Says John Henry • George V. Hobart

... old silver were displayed. It seemed to me that a person intelligent enough to combine odds and ends with such fetching effect ought to be the man to appreciate my great—or great great-grandmother's scarf. I didn't run to taxis when alone, and would as soon have got into one of those appalling motor buses as leap on to the back of a mad elephant that had berserkered out of the Zoo. Consequently, I had to walk. It was an untidy, badly dusted day, with a hot wind; and I realized, ...

— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

Words linked to "Taxis" : surgery, surgical operation, reaction, surgical procedure, operation, surgical process, response