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waxing
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wax \Wax\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waxed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Waxing .] To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table. Waxed cloth , cloth covered with a coating of wax, used as a cover, of tables and for other purposes; -- called ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon increases; "the waxing moon passes from new to full" [ant: waning ] n. the application of wax to a surface a gradual increase in magnitude or extent; "the waxing of ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Waxing is a form of semi-permanent hair removal which removes the hair from the root. New hair will not grow back in the previously waxed area for four to six weeks, although some people will start to see regrowth in only a week due to some of their hair ...
Usage examples of waxing.
Hold me one moment longer, He taunts me with the past, His clutch is waxing stronger, Hold me fast, hold me fast.
I lay entranced, a curtain seemed To shrivel with crackling from before my face, Across mine eyes a waxing radiance beamed And showed a certain place.
One day it will be sweet To shut our eyes and die: Nor feel the wild-flowers blow, nor birds dart by With flitting butterfly, Nor grass grow long above our heads and feet, Nor hear the happy lark that soars sky high, Nor sigh that spring is fleet and summer fleet, Nor mark the waxing wheat, Nor know who sits in our accustomed seat.
The sun is waxing strong, The days are waxing long, And all that is, Is fair.
My hope hangs waning, waxing, like a moon Between the heavenly days on which we meet: Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you called them sweet?
It is hurried through, It is come and gone, Undone it cannot be done, It is ever to do, Ever old, ever new, Ever waxing old And lapsing to Winter cold.
Strange: the LA Times had Bendish waxing philosophical on the bug-out, like two mill down the toilet was everyday stuff to him.
PERCEVAL O no, he is alive and waxing strong: That tale has been set travelling more than once.
The people, too, are waxing masterful: They think the lingering of your Majesty Makes Paris more a peril for themselves Than a defence for you.
With smalle houndes all about her feet, And underneath her feet she had a moon, Waxing it was, and shoulde wane soon.
The waxing moon, risen early, extruded ghostlike shafts through a gash in the cumulus.
Her grandparents had bought this table in Ireland, a solid slab of West Indian mahogany, lustrous after thousands of patient rubbings and waxings.
Curly was, in fact, the very opposite of hirsute, his condition exacerbated by daily shavings and waxings that gave his head the appearance of an overripe melon.