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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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