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Wax

noun

Any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water.

verb

(past & past part. waxed; pres. part. waxing)

Cover with wax.

Go up or advance. Synonyms: climb, mount, rise. Antonym: wane.

Increase in phase. Synonym: full. Antonym: wane.

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"Wax" Quotes from Famous Books

... dat's de song dat some folks sing! Say, how d'y'e like de soun'? Dey say de pore man orter pay For walkin' on de groun"! When cullud men was slaves, yer know', 'Twas drefful hard to tax 'em; But jes de minnit dat dey's free, God save us! how dey wax 'em! ...

— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee

... Roman More hateful than a foe; And the Tribunes beard the high, And the Fathers grind the low. As we wax hot in faction, In battle we wax cold; Wherefore men fight not as they fought In the brave ...

— Holiday Stories for Young People • Various

... a moustache and wax the tips, Harry," she said, when she had recovered sufficiently well to be able to speak. "Curl your hair with tongs and take dancing lessons from a tango lizard or go in for a course of sotto voce sayings from a French portrait painter, but you'd still remain ...

— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton

... Brunell would not be there, and found in the cursory examination possible at that time that its purpose seemed to be strictly legitimate. A shock-headed boy of fifteen or thereabout was in charge, and the operative easily succeeded in engaging his stolid attention elsewhere while, with a bit of soft wax carefully palmed in his left hand, he succeeded in gaining an impression of the lock on the flimsy door. From this he had a key made in anticipation of orders from his chief, requiring a thorough search of the ...

— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

... London, at the last annual meeting, awarded "the Royal Medal" to Mr. Benjamin Brodie, F.R.S. (eldest son of Sir B. Brodie, Bart.) for his papers on the chemical nature of wax. It is nearly forty years since the Royal Society awarded the "Copley medal" to Sir Benjamin Brodie for his paper "on poisons;" the only instance of father and son receiving the ...

— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various

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