coaxes

Verb

coax (third-person singular simple present coaxes, present participle coaxing, simple past and past participle coaxed)

1. (obsolete) To fondle, kid, pet, tease.

   Synonyms:

   caress, grope, touch up, canoodle, chuckle, cosset, dally, dandle, dawt, faddle

2. (transitive) To wheedle or persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.
   • She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   cajole, canoodle, persuade, tease, trap, wheedle

3. (transitive) To carefully manipulate (someone or something) into a particular desired state, situation or position.
   • They coaxed the rope through the pipe.

   Synonyms:

   ease, surprise

See all 4 meanings of coax

Noun

coaxis (plural coaxes)

1. One of the directional motion vectors perpendicular to a cocone.
   • Now draw the characteristic triangle mentioned above, […] of which the hypotenuse is a portion of the tangent or the element of the arc, and the sides are parallel to the axis and the coaxis.2008, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, J. M. Child, The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz, page 43