Wiktionary
n. The moon when it appears larger each night as it progresses from a new moon to a full moon.
Usage examples of "waxing moon".
Or on the soft spring grass beneath the oaks down by the stream, or in the sweet hay of fall, or in the pool on the ridge, and once, floundering half-dressed in deep new snow under a reckless waxing moon that had broken their sleep for three nights running.
Trevyn paid her little mind after the first few days, and he never expected to see her naked in the light of a waxing moon.
You may also bring me your hopes with the waxing moon and your sorrows on the wane, for I am with you in all states and stages, when you call and when you are silent, when you turn to me as an eager child and when you weep solitary tears in your pillow when your dreams have dissolved into ashes.
They could see little, for though it was cloudless and the waxing moon was four nights old, there were smokes and fumes that rose out of the earth and the white crescent was shrouded in the mists of Mordor.
She had such a wonderful, vividly alive profile that even in the half light of gathering dusk her expressions seemed more potent than anything around them, as bright as the waxing moon now rising over wall and treetops.
The waxing moon gave him enough light to see by as he walked on, a shadow among shadows on the colorless plain.
In a great circle, under the starry sky and the waxing moon, they now made their bivouac.