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waxed |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wax \Wax\, v. i. [imp. {Waxed}; p. p. {Waxed}, and Obs. or Poetic {Waxen}; p. pr & vb n. {Waxing}.] [AS. weaxan akin to OFries waxa, D. wassen, OS & OHG. wahsan G. wachsen, Icel. vaxa, Sw v["a]xa, Dan. voxe, Goth. wahsjan Gr ? to increase, Skr. waksh, uksh, to grow. ???. Cf {Waist}.] 1. To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane. The waxing and the waning of the moon. --Hakewill. Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane. --P. Plowman. 2. 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. Your clothes are not waxen old upon you --Deut. xxix. 5. Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound. --Milton. {Waxing kernels} (Med.), small tumors formed by the enlargement of the lymphatic glands, especially in the groins of children; -- popularly so called because supposed to be caused by growth of the body. --Dunglison. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wax \Wax\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waxed}; p. pr & vb n. {Waxing}.] To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as to wax a thread or a table. {Waxed cloth}, cloth covered with a coating of wax, used as a cover, of tables and for other purposes; -- called also {wax cloth}. {Waxed end}, a thread pointed with a bristle and covered with shoemaker's wax, used in sewing leather, as for boots, shoes, and the like -- called also {wax end}. --Brockett. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: waxed adj : treated with wax; "waxed floors"; "waxed mustache" [ant: {unwaxed}]
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