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Quality or state of being waxy.

he secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird.

Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.

One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.

An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition.

Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible. "Waxy to persuasion." Bp. Hall. Waxy degeneration (Med.), amyloid degeneration. See under Amyloid. -- Waxy kidney, Waxy liver, etc. (Med.), a kidney or liver affected by waxy degeneration.

merica; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood- waxen.

Same as Woadwaxen.

Wood coal, or charcoal; -- so called in distinction from mineral coal.

A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing states. [Written also sax.]

An instrument similar to, or the same as, the, the phenakistoscope, by means of which pictures projected upon a screen are made to exhibit the natural movements of animals, and the like.

e liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.

The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvi…

Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.

Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. He waxeth at your abode here. Fielding.

tion of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coördinate axes.

absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.