| waxen | 1. Made of wax. "The female bee, that . . . Builds her waxen cells." 2. Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet. 3. Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding. "Men have marble, women waxen, minds. <zoology>" (Shak) Waxen chatterer, the Bohemian chatterer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| woad-waxen | <botany> A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America. Synonym: greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen. Origin: Cf. Wood-wax. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wood-waxen | <botany> Same as Woadwaxen. Origin: AS. Wuduweaxe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |