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▪ I. relaxing, vbl. n.|rɪˈlæksɪŋ|
[f. relax v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. relax.
1611Florio, Relasso,..a relaxing. 1667Lower in Phil. Trans. II. 545 The Belly falls by the Relaxing of the same [diaphragm]. 1734Waterland Script. Vindic. Concl., Wks. 1823 VI. 169 The destroying or relaxing of the other [motives] is so far destroying or relaxing virtue and morality. 1884Athenæum 16 Aug. 204/2 The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries saw a considerable relaxing of the severities of the Cistercian rule.
2. attrib. in Ent., applied to containers in which dead insects are relaxed, containing a pad soaked with fluid.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 699/3 Entomologists' requisites..Killing and relaxing boxes. Each..1/6. 1912H. Rowland-Brown Butterflies & Moths i. v. 53 The nervures and wing-attachments must be softened to permit of their being rearranged. I have not found that the ‘relaxing-boxes’ are much good for this purpose with other than recently killed specimens. 1952E. F. Daglish Name this Insect p. xiii, After some hours in a relaxing chamber the legs and wings will be as easy to arrange as are those of fresh-killed specimens. 1963R. L. E. Ford Pract. Entomol. 32 Specimens may be left in a relaxing tin for about twenty-four hours when they will be ready to set. 1976P. W. Cribb Lepidopterist's Handbk. vii. 84 A relaxing box is a clean plastic box with a layer of clean absorbent material at the bottom.
▸ Hairdressing (orig. U.S.). The process or technique of straightening or partially uncurling hair by means of a chemical product. Cf. relax v.
Chiefly in African-American, Caribbean, and British Afro-Caribbean usage.
[1961Ebony Nov. 35 (advt.) A pleasant pink cream goes into your hair and begins to relax it, gently... Never any chance..for..over-relaxing.] 1965N.Y. Times 26 Oct. 37/3 In a whole new vocabulary, a permanent wave is called hair processing, and the opposite treatment (currently more in vogue) is called hair relaxing. 1971Vocational Cosmetol. (Utah State Board for Vocational Educ.) The remaining hours are devoted to techniques of hair styling, shaping, and coloring; permanent waving/hair relaxing. 1981Westindian World 18 Sept. 10/2 (advt.) Plaiting, curly perms, relaxing, blow outs, cutting, etc. 1991Essence Dec. 50 (advt.) This no-lye relaxer system goes beyond just relaxing. It restores, repairs and rebuilds. To leave your hair visibly softer, smoother, shinier. 2001Hair Now Oct. 65/1 Relaxing techniques and hair wefts have revolutionised styling for black women.
▪ II. reˈlaxing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Causing or producing relaxation; enervating.
1611Florio, Rilasciante medicina, a relaxing medicine. 1779Gentl. Mag. XLIX. 79 Ointment of Marsh Mallows, I imagine from its name is understood to be of an emollient relaxing disposition. 1825–9Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor xiii. (1860) II. 120 A climate so peculiarly relaxing as that of Bengal. 1841James Brigand i, All the relaxing joys of an hour's idleness. 1883‘Annie Thomas’ Mod. Housewife 95 You will neither go to the bleak Norfolk coast nor to the relaxing air of Bournemouth.
Hence reˈlaxingness.
1883R. Broughton Belinda II. ii. v. 55, I have been advised..to try the effect of a more bracing air, as a corrective to the extreme relaxingness of Oxbridge. |