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Waxbird :: Waxbird () The waxwing.

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

Earwax :: Earwax (n.) See Cerumen.

Pela :: Pela (n.) See Wax insect, under Wax..

Wax :: Wax (n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow..

Pellet :: Pellet (n.) A little ball; as, a pellet of wax / paper..

Waxen :: Waxen (a.) Made of wax.

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

Ceriferous :: Ceriferous (a.) Producing wax.

Thoroughwax :: Thoroughwax (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves.

Stephanotis :: Stephanotis (n.) A genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of Madagascar, Malaya, etc. They have fleshy or coriaceous opposite leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes..

Cerography :: Cerography (n.) A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.

Wax :: Wax (n.) Cerumen, or earwax..

Spermaceti :: Spermaceti (n.) A white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin..

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..

Percher :: Percher (v. i.) A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar..

Vesta :: Vesta (n.) A wax friction match.

Incerative :: Incerative (a.) Cleaving or sticking like wax.

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..

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

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