WAX
\wˈaks], \wˈaks], \w_ˈa_k_s]\
Definitions of WAX
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
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increase in phase; "the moon is waxing"
By Princeton University
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any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
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increase in phase; "the moon is waxing"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
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A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
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Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.
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Cerumen, or earwax.
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A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.
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A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
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A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.
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A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.
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Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.
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To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.
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To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; - opposed to wane.
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A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; - called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.
By Oddity Software
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To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
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A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
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Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.
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Cerumen, or earwax.
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A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.
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A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
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A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.
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Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.
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To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.
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To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; - opposed to wane.
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A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See insect, below.
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A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; - called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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A fat-like yellow substance produced by bees, and used by them in making their cells: any substance like it, as that in the ear: the substance used to seal letters: that used by shoemakers to rub their thread.
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To smear or rub with wax.
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WAXEN.
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To grow or increase, esp. of the moon, as opp. to wane: to pass into another state.
By Daniel Lyons
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A fat-like yellow substance produced by bees; resinous compound used to seal letters.
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To increase; grow; become.
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To rub with wax.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To coat or treat with wax.
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A fatty solid substance of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin.
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To become larger gradually; grow.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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