Definition of wax

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Wax (n.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable..

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Cerated :: Cerated (p. a.) Covered with wax.
Wax :: Wax (n.) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling..
Myrica :: Myrica (n.) A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called..
Vermilion :: Vermilion (n.) A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc..
Earpick :: Earpick (n.) An instrument for removing wax from the ear.
Vehicle :: Vehicle (n.) Any liquid with which a pigment is applied, including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive substance is combined with it..
Agnus Dei :: Agnus Dei () A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope.
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..
Ceriferous :: Ceriferous (a.) Producing wax.
Thoroughwax :: Thoroughwax (n.) Thoroughwort.
Sealing Wax :: Sealing wax () A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc..
Paxywaxy :: Paxywaxy (n.) See Paxwax.
Seal :: Seal (v. t.) To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter..
Wood-waxen :: Wood-waxen (n.) Same as Woadwaxen.
Earwax :: Earwax (n.) See Cerumen.
Thoroughwax :: Thoroughwax (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves.
Vesta :: Vesta (n.) A wax friction match.
Seal :: Seal (n.) That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it..
Cereous :: Cereous (a.) Waxen; like 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..
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