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The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.

A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.

The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestles were anointed among the ancient Romans.

Divination by dropping melted wax in water.

Relating to the art of modeling in wax.

The art of modeling in wax.

A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminæ.

A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.

A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.

A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.

The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.

A radical, C27H55 supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc.

A rate or tax. [Obs. or Prof. Eng. & Scot.] Spenser.

An assessment or tax. [Obs.] Johnson.

A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, spermaceti. Cetylic alcohol (Chem.), a white, waxy, crystalline solid, obtained from spermaceti, and regarded as homologous with ordinary, or ethyl, alcohol; ethal; - - called also cetyl alcohol.

translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax. [Written also calcedony.]

A female champion. Fairfax.

another in machinery, to produce a different but definite rate of angular velocity in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc. -- To ring the changes on, to present the same facts or arguments in variety of ways.