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waxen
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a waxen complexion EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had stooped to kiss her cold cheek and smelt in the hollow of her neck the waxen odour of death. ▪ He took out the waxen figure which also contained straw and fat from ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waxen \Wax"en\, a. Made of wax. ``The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells.'' --Milton. Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet. Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding. Men have marble, women waxen, minds. --Shak. Waxen chatterer ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy" [syn: waxy ] having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with ...
Usage examples of waxen.
It was there by virtue of its selfness, adrift in the same waxen pale as himself.
The blubbery lips, protruding eyes, waxen cheeks, squashy red-tipped nose.
Equally handsome whether white-garlanded cymes of blossoms or scarlet berries, waxen when partly ripe.
He artfully fashioned a waxen mask and loose costume enabling him to pass among men as a human being of a sort, and devised a doubly potent spell with which to hold back the Dholes at the moment of his starting from the dead, black Yaddith of the inconceivable future.
As he was going to pay her a visit I went in with him, and found myself in the presence of a fine waxen statue.
The slouching hobbledehoy lads, the girls, some comely and high-coloured, some waxen white--they were civil and decent, but impenetrable.
The faces of Mark Kemper, of Spooner, of the guilty Peggy Dawson were waxen with death.
And then the whole quire hold their hips and loff, and waxen in their mirth, and swear a merrier hour was never wasted there.
They make waxen mammets from this consecrated candle to work their evil.
Cely asked, wistfully, as she put her forefinger into the brown, waxen fist that belonged to the tiny bundle Maumer held.
January, as he lifted the half-dead Italian, waxen with phlebotomy, to sponge him clean.
And after this, the soothe for to sayn, Her glove he took, of which he was full fain, And finally, when it was waxen eve, And all was well, he rose and took his leave.
And then he saw, past the vug, Carol Garden seated at the kitchen table, her face waxen.
His condition was unchanged,--the wan beams of the early clay falling cross his features intensified their waxen stillness and pallor,--the awful majesty of death was on him,--the pathetic helplessness and perishableness of Body without Spirit.
For a moment he saw the splay of waxen vapour shiver as it was siphoned away into the blue and emerald phosphenes of dust.