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verb

Wax v. i. (past waxed; past part. waxed, obs. or poetic waxen; pres. part. waxing)

1.

To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; opposed to wane. "The waxing and the waning of the moon." "Truth's treasures... never shall wax ne wane."

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." "Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound."

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.

adjective

Waxen adj.

1.

Made of wax. "The female bee, that... builds her waxen cells."

2.

Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet.

3.

Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding. "Men have marble, women waxen, minds."

Waxen chatterer (Zool.), the Bohemian chatterer.

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Etymology of 'Waxen'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Waxen" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. Green named her. Don't say 'doll'; call her by her proper name," answered the spoiled child, handing over the unfortunate waxen representative of a not ...

— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans

... twilight. The weather made one remember that even in Florence the merging of March and April could be violent. To-night masses of harsh-looking clouds sped across the sky before an icy wind from the mountains. A burial-party, assembled at a convent gate, had their black robes fluttering, their waxen torches blown out. ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... sleeping apartment, the head of the bed being made in a kind of cupboard, into which in the daytime the bedding was turned up, and the cupboard doors closed. A few chairs, a table, and a glass case, in which was a coarse waxen figure, flauntingly dressed, representing the Virgin with her child in her arms, completed the rest of the moveables ...

— The Young Lord and Other Tales - to which is added Victorine Durocher • Camilla Toulmin

... her sister's flushed, confused face, on the waxen camellia, her gift to her lover, and then turned upon Mr. Stanford. That eminently nonchalant young Englishman was as cool ...

— Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters - A Novel • May Agnes Fleming

... and far and weird and slow, came a "boom!—boom!—boom!"—a distant bell tolling midnight. When the last stroke died, that depressing stillness followed again, and as before I was staring at those waxen faces and feeling those airy touches on my hair and my ...

— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 1 (of 2) • Mark Twain

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