Definition of wax

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Wax (n.) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling..

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Incerative :: Incerative (a.) Cleaving or sticking like wax.
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..
Cerograph :: Cerograph (n.) A writing on wax.
Retinalite :: Retinalite (n.) A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster..
Sigillative :: Sigillative (a.) Fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax.
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..
Whitleather :: Whitleather (n.) The paxwax. See Paxwax.
Wax :: Wax (v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse..
Honeycomb :: Honeycomb (n.) A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs..
Wood-wax :: Wood-wax (n.) Alt. of Wood-waxe.
Cerecloth :: Cerecloth (n.) A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter..
Wax :: Wax (n.) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
Cierge :: Cierge (n.) A wax candle used in religous rites.
Basilicon :: Basilicon (n.) An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance..
Stick :: Stick (v. t.) Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax..
Carnauba :: Carnauba (n.) The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.
Wood-waxen :: Wood-waxen (n.) Same as Woadwaxen.
Wax :: Wax (n.) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling..
Ricinelaidin :: Ricinelaidin (n.) The glycerin salt of ricinelaidic acid, obtained as a white crystalline waxy substance by treating castor oil with nitrous acid..
Waxed :: Waxed (imp.) of Wa.
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