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Waxen :: Waxen (a.) Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding..

Cerograph :: Cerograph (n.) A writing on wax.

Packwax :: Packwax (n.) Same as Paxwax.

Wax :: Wax (n.) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.

Overwax :: Overwax (v. i.) To wax or grow too rapindly or too much.

Chafewax :: Chafewax (n.) Alt. of Chaffwa.

Serge :: Serge (n.) A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.

Waxiness :: Waxiness (n.) Quality or state of being waxy.

Adipocere :: Adipocere (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration..

Waxen :: Waxen () of Wa.

Methal :: Methal (n.) A white waxy substance, found in small quantities in spermaceti as an ethereal salt of several fatty acids, and regarded as an alcohol of the methane series..

Kerosene :: Kerosene (n.) An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series..

Sigillative :: Sigillative (a.) Fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax.

Adhere :: Adhere (v. i.) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura..

Paraffine :: Paraffine (n.) A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or

Cerography :: Cerography (n.) The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax..

Kendal :: Kendal () A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England..

Onocerin :: Onocerin (n.) A white crystalline waxy substance extracted from the root of the leguminous plant Ononis spinosa.

Taper :: Taper (n.) A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light..

Woad-waxen :: Woad-waxen (n.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen..

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