Waxen

Word WAXEN
Character 5
Hyphenation wax en
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Waxen"

What do we mean by waxen?

Made of or covered with wax. adjective

Pale or smooth as wax. adjective

Weak, pliable, or impressionable. adjective

Archaic present indicative plural of wax.

An obsolete or archaic past participle of wax.

Made of wax; covered with wax: as, a waxen tablet.

Resembling wax; soft as wax; waxy.

Easily effaced, as if written in wax.

In zoology:

Being or consisting of wax: as, the waxen cells of honeycomb.

Like wax; waxy.

Waxed; having wax-like appendages: as, the waxen chatterer (the Bohemian waxwing).

Made of wax. adjective

Covered with wax; waxed. adjective

Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding. adjective

The Bohemian chatterer. adjective

Grown. adjective

Alternative past participle of wax. verb

Made of wax; covered with wax. adjective

Of or pertaining to wax. adjective

Grown.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Waxen

The word "waxen" in example sentences

What might be called the waxen period had set in, and the high colourless features seemed to be modelled in that soft, semi-transparent material. ❋ Unknown (1881)

The trees around a Shintô shrine are specially under the protection of the god to whom the altar is dedicated; and, in connection with them, there is a kind of magic still respected by the superstitious, which recalls the waxen dolls, through the medium of which sorcerers of the middle ages in Europe, and indeed those of ancient Greece, as Theocritus tells us, pretended to kill the enemies of their clients. ❋ Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale (1876)

Bessy's features seemed to shrink into a kind of waxen quietude -- as though her face were seen under clear water, a long way down. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

By the spring that gurgled among the redwoods grew another great wild lily, bearing on its slender stalk the prodigious outburst of white waxen bells. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Stow following behind, a nervous smile on her waxen face. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

Yes, she is a heavy pink and white bloom, full, scented, a little waxen. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The first row sitting there like zombies, waxen and unmoving, as my head hit the floor. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

When did brands start positioning themselves as families, communities, their offices big picnic blankets of giggling executives, their products carved from whimsy and solid, waxen love? ❋ Unknown (2011)

His features held the same waxen pallor, spasms jerking his shoulders as he fought back sickness. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

Many had been built crudely and with such haste that they were too short for the occupants, whose pale, waxen feet stuck out. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

The hot smell of moose lathers the waxen Sunday light. ❋ William Doreski (2011)

Mann scrapes the ring on his finger and the waxen rail ❋ Ivan R. (2011)

Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I see my own body on the bed, laid out in the choir vestments of the Carmelite, a garland of flowers on the waxen forehead. ❋ Adriana Renescu (2012)

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