Definition of wax

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Wax (n.) Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance..

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Seal :: Seal (n.) Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal..
Ceroplastic :: Ceroplastic (a.) Relating to the art of modeling in wax.
Principal :: Principal (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
Wex :: Wex (n.) Wax.
Sycock :: Sycoceryl (n.) A radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essential ingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig..
Ceresin :: Ceresin (n.) A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax..
Basilicon :: Basilicon (n.) An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance..
Serge :: Serge (n.) A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.
Wax :: Wax (n.) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
Amadavat :: Amadavat (n.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill..
Ozocerite :: Ozocerite (n.) A waxlike mineral resin; -- sometimes called native paraffin, and mineral wax..
Grow :: Grow (v. i.) To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.
Wax :: Wax (v. i.) To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
Seal :: Seal (n.) An engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security..
Flambeau :: Flambeau (n.) A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch..
Waxen :: Waxen () of Wa.
Lignoceric :: Lignoceric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the formic acid series, found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling certain kinds of wood, as the beech..
Ricinelaidin :: Ricinelaidin (n.) The glycerin salt of ricinelaidic acid, obtained as a white crystalline waxy substance by treating castor oil with nitrous acid..
Cerosin :: Cerosin (n.) A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae..
Chaffwax :: Chaffwax (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
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