WAXEN

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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

2.
a.

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

3.
a.

Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding. Men have marble, women waxen, minds. Shak. Waxen chatterer (Zoöl.), the Bohemian chatterer.


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