Definition of wax

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Wax (n.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite..

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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.
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..
Whin :: Whin (n.) Woad-waxed.
Myristic :: Myristic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the nutmeg (Myristica). Specifically, designating an acid found in nutmeg oil and otoba fat, and extracted as a white crystalline waxy substance..
Pseudotinea :: Pseudotinea (n.) The bee moth, or wax moth (Galleria)..
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..
Bittersweet :: Bittersweet (n.) An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork..
Cerography :: Cerography (n.) A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
Wax :: Wax (n.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable..
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.
Waxed :: Waxed (imp.) of Wa.
Increase :: Increase (v. i.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases..
Cerotene :: Cerotene (n.) A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin..
Cere :: Cere (v. t.) To wax; to cover or close with wax.
Ceroplasty :: Ceroplasty (n.) The art of modeling in wax.
Sealing Wax :: Sealing wax () A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc..
Ceroma :: Ceroma (n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.
Hatchettite :: Hatchettite (n.) Mineral t/ low; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color..
Statue :: Statue (n.) The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion..
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