Definitions for waxen

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waxen wax·en

Spelling: [wak-suh n]

IPA: /ˈwæk sən/

Waxen is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in waxen (aenwx).

Definitions for waxen

noun

1. Also called beeswax. a solid, yellowish, nonglycerine substance allied to fats and oils, secreted by bees, plastic when warm and melting at about 145°F, variously employed in making candles, models, casts, ointments, etc., and used by bees in constructing their honeycomb.
2. any of various similar substances, as spermaceti or the secretions of certain insects and plants. Compare vegetable wax, wax insect.
3. any of a group of substances composed of hydrocarbons, alcohols, fatty acids, and esters that are solid at ordinary temperatures.
4. cerumen; earwax.
5. a resinous substance used by shoemakers for rubbing thread.
6. sealing wax.
7. a person or object suggesting wax, as in manageability or malleability:

verb

1. a past participle of wax2 .

Idioms

1. whole ball of wax, Slang. the entire or overall plan, concept, action, result, or the like: everything of a similar or related nature:

adjective

1. made of or covered, polished, or treated with wax.
2. resembling or suggesting wax:
3. weak, manageable, or impressionable:
4. pertaining to, made of, or resembling wax:

verb (used with object)

1. to rub, smear, stiffen, polish, etc., with wax:
2. to fill the crevices of (ornamental marble) with colored material.
3. bikini wax.
4. Informal. to make a phonograph recording of.
5. Slang. to defeat decisively; drub:

verb (used without object)

1. to increase in extent, quantity, intensity, power, etc.:
2. (of the moon) to increase in the extent of its illuminated portion before the full moon. Compare wane (def 4).
3. to grow or become:

Origin of waxen

before 1000; Middle English; Old English weaxen; see wax¹, -en²

Examples for waxen

What are the people doing in the dark, with the waxen images and the horrid crucifixes?

The thin, waxen mask of assumed kindness has melted from her face!

It was the yellowish, waxen face of Mrs. Silsbee that had been uncovered.

The waxen complexion, fair hair, and blue eyes of the girl were almost her own.

A waxen young woman stands in silence at an underground railway platform.

All the waxen face was already dead, the eyes only were still living.

Clasped to her breast by her two waxen hands was a rag doll.

The whole party moved in a body into the thicket of waxen stalks.

The waxen image is at its feet, as a suppliant, and awaiting only death.

Tis but fancy, which is to love as the waxen image to the living man.