waxed

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. treated with wax“waxed floors”“waxed mustache”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Wax \Wax\ (w[a^]ks), 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[aum]xa, Dan. voxe, Goth. wahsjan, Gr. ? to increase, Skr. waksh, uksh, to grow. [root]135. Cf. Waist.] [1913 Webster]

1.To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane. [1913 Webster]

The waxing and the waning of the moon.— Hakewill.[1913 Webster]
Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane.— P. Plowman.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Your clothes are not waxen old upon you.— Deut. xxix. 5.[1913 Webster]
Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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