Crossword clues for waxy
waxy
- Like some beans
- Like artificial fruit
- Like a Tussaud figure
- Like some fake fruit
- Like polished floors
- Like lanolin
- Like Edam cheese coating
- Like displays in Madame Tussauds
- Like candles and crayons
- Like bayberries
- With a candlelike feel
- Reminiscent of lipstick
- Reminiscent of fake fruit
- Readily molded
- Needing swabbing, as ears
- Looking like melted candles
- Like yucca flowers
- Like yucca blossoms
- Like some still-life items
- Like some buildup
- Like shoe polish
- Like fruit in a still-life setup, maybe
- Like floor buildups
- Like coated dental floss
- Like candles or fake fruit
- Like buildup in the ears
- Like begonias
- Like an ear buildup
- Like a polished floor
- Evocative of begonias
- Ceraceous
- Like candles or crayons
- Having a pallor
- Like linoleum floors
- Like a 103-Down, maybe
- Crayolalike
- Like some floors
- Like crayons
- Sleek, as a floor
- Readily shaped
- Like Stilton cheese
- Like some crayons
- Candlelike, say
- Like candy corn's texture
- Like tapers
- Like fake fruit
- Candlelike in feel
- Paraffinic
- Viscid
- Impressionable
- Pliable
- Like bottoms of skis
- Like something wicked making one irritable?
- Like solid paraffin
- Possibly gooey kiss planted in style
- Like some dental floss
- Like paraffin
- Like a candle's texture
- Like some floor buildups
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waxy \Wax"y\, a.
Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid;
adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible. ``Waxy
to persuasion.''
--Bp. Hall.
Waxy degeneration (Med.), amyloid degeneration. See under Amyloid.
Waxy kidney, Waxy liver, etc. (Med.), a kidney or liver affected by waxy degeneration.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "made of wax," from wax (n.) + -y (2). Figurative use from 1590s. Meaning "like wax" is from 1799. Related: Waxiness.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. Resembling wax in texture or appearance. Etymology 2
a. (context regional colloquial English) angry.
WordNet
adj. made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy" [syn: waxen]
resembling or covered with wax; "as shiny as a waxy pippin"; "the ceraceous surface of the leaves" [syn: waxlike, ceraceous]
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 a waxy paleness" [syn: waxen, waxlike]
Wikipedia
Waxy is an American stoner rock band. The power trio consists of frontman Robbie Waldman(guitar/vocals), bassist Owen Street and drummer Sean Landerra. Brett Stadler, long time personal friend of Waldman, is the band's eccentric co-lyricyst as well as a published poet. Following their 2005 self-titled debut, 2007 saw the release of their second effort Chainsaw Holiday, which featured guest appearances by Alfredo Hernández, Jesse Hughes and John Garcia.
WAXY (790 AM, "The Ticket") is a radio station licensed in South Miami, Florida broadcasting on 790 kHz with a sports talk format. The station is owned by Entercom. Its studios are located near Sun Life Stadium in northern Dade County and its transmitter is in Everglades National Park.
The callsign was formerly used on FM at 105.9 until Jefferson-Pilot acquired the callsign due to their competing station WMXJ Majic 102.7 having the same format, Oldies. 105.9 FM is now WBGG-FM and owned by Clear Channel with a Classic Rock format.
On August 24, 2012, Lincoln Financial Media announced that it had acquired 104.3 WMSF. Beginning on August 29, 2012, 104.3 FM will begin simulcasting the 790 broadcast. Once the acquisition closes, "The Ticket" broadcast will move to 104.3 FM and 790 AM will break off for new programming.
On December 8, 2014, Entercom announced that it was purchasing Lincoln Financial Group's entire 15-station lineup (including WAXY) in a $106.5 million deal, and would operate the outlets under a LMA deal until the sale was approved by the FCC (which occurred on July 16, 2015). As a result, 104.3 ended the simulcast on August 21, 2015, and sports will remain on 790 for the foreseeable future.
Waxy may refer to:
- a substance related to wax
- colloquially for a waxworm (particularly used by anglers)
- Waxy (band), an American stoner rock band
- Waxy (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse
- WAXY (AM), a radio station (790 AM) licensed to serve South Miami, Florida, United States
- WSFS (FM), a radio station (104.3 FM) licensed to serve Miramar, Florida, which held the call sign WAXY-FM from 2012 to 2015
Waxy (1790 – 18 April 1818) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1793 Epsom Derby and was an influential sire in the late eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth century. Waxy was bred by Sir Ferdinando Poole and was foaled at Lewes in 1790. He was sired by Pot-8-Os, a son of the foundation stallion Eclipse, whose genetic lineage traced to the Darley Arabian. Waxy's dam, Maria, was sired by the influential stallion Herod and produced one full-brother to Waxy, who was named Worthy. Waxy derived his name from a variety of potato, a choice that was inspired by his sire's name. Trained by Robert Robson, Waxy won nine races out of 15 starts during his four-year racing career, retiring from racing at the age of seven in 1797 after sustaining an injury during his last start.
Beginning in 1798, Waxy stood at stud at Sir Poole's estate in Lewes and remained there until Poole's death in 1804. After Poole's death, Waxy was acquired by the 3rd Duke of Grafton and stood at his Euston Hall stud. Waxy remained at Euston Hall for the remainder of his life and was used as a breeding stallion until his death on 18 April 1818. His most notable offspring were produced under the ownership of the 3rd Duke of Grafton and his son. Waxy produced 190 winners of races during his stud career, siring four Epsom Derby and three Epsom Oaks winners, becoming a leading sire in 1810. His most notable sons that achieved success in the stud were Whalebone and Whisker. Through the produce of these two sons, Waxy became the paternal ancestor of most of the world's male Thoroughbreds by the mid-twentieth century.
Usage examples of "waxy".
David remembered reading of adipocere, fatty tissues changed chemically to waxy material, preserving bodies for decades.
This greasy, sometimes waxy substance is known as adipocere, or grave wax.
She took ambergris from her pack and crumbled it, rubbed the waxy green granules into the soles of her feet, her wrists.
To see the clusters of waxy flowers these branches must be raised, when it will be seen that the flower stalks issue from the axils of the leaves all along the branches.
From a wiry old woman with mud-brown skin, he mastered the botanical secrets of the land, learning how to make curare from strychnos vines, malarial prophylaxes from cinchona bark, barbasco insect repellent, and a topical painkiller from waxy red genipa berries.
Albumen, with disintegrated epithelia, hyaline, and large granular casts, as well as waxy casts, are peculiar to, and characteristic of, this disease.
Its trumpet-shaped waxy flowers were like upside-down Easter lilies, opening by moonlight to exude their heavy, sensual aroma.
In his clumsy haste, Andrew cannoned into a mohwa tree bringing down a cascade of heavily scented waxy blossoms.
White Poppy capsules, when dried, furnish papaverine and narcotine, with some mucilage, and a little waxy matter.
Waist-deep she waded among flat discs of pondweed, her hair streaming like wet leaves over the waxy contours of her body.
In the springtime, when the desert nights are still cool, the tips of the saguaro branches are covered with waxy white flowers.
The silkiness of melting chocolate on his tongue reminds him of the music of Angelo Badalamenti, and the music of Badalamenti brings to mind the waxy surface of a scarlet anthurium, and the anthurium sparks an intensely sensual recollection of the cool taste and crispness of cornichons, which for several seconds completely overwhelms the actual taste of the chocolate.
On the kitchen counter was a huge bouquet of waxy red flowers with yellow spadix -- anthuriums, if Kenneth recalled correctly -- and a large wooden model ship.
I opened my bento bako of red lacquer, and found that it contained some cold, waxy potatoes, on which I dined, with the addition of some tea, and then waited wearily for Ito, for whom the guide went in search.
She smiled faintly as she touched the waxy blooms, and then continued about her tasks, still feeling uneasy although she was no longer sure whether that was because of the attempted robbery or Lord Am brose s unwelcome visit.