Crossword clues for waxen
waxen
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wax \Wax\ (w[a^]ks), v. i. [imp. Waxed; p. p. Waxed, and Obs. or Poetic Waxen; p. pr. & vb. n. Waxing.] [AS. weaxan; akin to OFries. waxa, D. wassen, OS. & OHG. wahsan, G. wachsen, Icel. vaxa, Sw. v["a]xa, Dan. voxe, Goth. wahsjan, Gr. ? to increase, Skr. waksh, uksh, to grow.
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To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
The waxing and the waning of the moon.
--Hakewill.Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane.
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To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
Your clothes are not waxen old upon you.
--Deut. xxix. 5.Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound.
--Milton.Waxing kernels (Med.), small tumors formed by the enlargement of the lymphatic glands, especially in the groins of children; -- popularly so called, because supposed to be caused by growth of the body.
--Dunglison.
Waxen \Wax"en\, a.
Made of wax. ``The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells.''
--Milton.Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet.
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Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding.
Men have marble, women waxen, minds.
--Shak.Waxen chatterer (Zo["o]l.), the Bohemian chatterer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wexen; see wax (n.) + -en (2).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
(context UK dialectal English) grown. v
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(form of Alternative past participle wax English). Etymology 2
a. 1 Made of wax; covered with wax. 2 Of or pertaining to wax. 3 Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy. 4 (context rare English) Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
WordNet
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.