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180 words match “WAX”

CERATED p.
Covered with wax.
CERE v.
To wax; to cover or close with wax. Wiseman.
CERECLOTH n.
A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. Linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth. Bacon.
CEREOUS a.
Waxen; like wax. [Obs.] Gayton.
CERESIN n.
A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.
CERIFEROUS a.
Producing wax.
CERIN n.
A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol. Watts.
CEROGRAPH n.
A writing on wax. Knight.
CEROGRAPHY n. 2 definitions
The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
CEROLITE n.
A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.
CEROMA n.
The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestles were anointed among the ancient Romans.
CEROMANCY n.
Divination by dropping melted wax in water.
CEROPLASTIC a. 2 definitions
Relating to the art of modeling in wax.
CEROPLASTICS; CEROPLASTY n.
The art of modeling in wax.
CEROSIN n.
A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminæ.
CEROTENE n.
A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.
CEROTIC a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.
CEROTIN n.
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.
CEROTYPE n.
A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.
CERUMEN n.
The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.
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