Definition of wax

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

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Cerumen :: Cerumen (n.) The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax..
Wex :: Wex (v. t. & i.) To grow; to wax.
Waxwork :: Waxwork (n.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds..
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..
Cerography :: Cerography (n.) The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax..
Waxing :: Waxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wa.
Wax :: Wax (n.) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
Jack :: Jack (n.) A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack.
Chalcedony :: Chalcedony (n.) A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax..
Cetin :: Cetin (n.) A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti..
Melt :: Melt (v.) To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow..
Cerotin :: Cerotin (n.) A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol..
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.
Wood-waxen :: Wood-waxen (n.) Same as Woadwaxen.
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..
Thoroughwax :: Thoroughwax (n.) Thoroughwort.
Wex :: Wex (imp.) Waxed.
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies..
Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon..
Lipic :: Lipic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fat. The word was formerly used specifically to designate a supposed acid obtained by the oxidation of oleic acid, tallow, wax, etc..
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