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waxen |
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]: Waxen \Wax"en\, a. 1. Made of wax. ``The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells.'' --Milton. 2. Covered with wax; waxed; as a waxen tablet. 3. Resembling wax; waxy; hence soft; yielding. Men have marble, women waxen, minds. --Shak. {Waxen chatterer} (Zo["o]l.), the Bohemian chatterer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: waxen adj 1: made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy" [syn: {waxy}] 2: having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness" [syn: {waxlike}, {waxy}]
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