Wax is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WAX in dictionary:

VERB:
• to treat with wax
• to grow larger, also WEX, WEXE
• cover or treat (something) with wax or a similar substance, typically to polish or protect it
• remove unwanted hair from (a part of the body) by applying wax and then peeling off the wax and hairs together
• make a recording of
• (of the moon between new and full) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, increasing its apparent size.
• become larger or stronger
• begin to speak or write about something in the specified manner
• To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
• 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.
• To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.
• cover with wax
• go up or advance
• increase in phase
• coat or polish with wax
NOUN:
• a fatty substance
• a sticky yellowish mouldable substance secreted by honeybees as the material of a honeycomb; beeswax.
• a white translucent material obtained by bleaching and purifying beeswax and used for such purposes as making candles, modelling, and as a basis of polishes.
• any waxy substance, especially a lipid or hydrocarbon.
• earwax.
• used in reference to records
• a fit of anger
• solid shiny fatty or oily substance used for sealing, making candles, etc
• A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
• Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.
• Cerumen, or earwax.
• A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.
• A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
• A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.
• A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.
• A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.
• Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.
• any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to coat with wax (a natural, heat-sensitive substance)

Words related to WAX

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Words that contain WAX

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How to use WAX in a sentence

• See that ye increase, and wax, and be occupied upon the earth, and multiply therein.
• And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebede, and began to wax sorrowful and to be in agony.
• Butterby, carrying a wax candle, followed by a couple of maids charged with all the provisions Moll had commanded.
• Upon one of the chests stood at that time a pair of boots, polished with wax.
• I light a wax vesta, and as I am sheltered from the wind, the flame keeps upright.
• This town, as well as Salee, is admirably calculated for trade, capable of furnishing foreign markets with large quantities of wool, leather, wax, and other important commodities.
• I entered and found myself in a pretty, large room, well lighted with wax candles.
• They also were tied with silken cord and sealed with the two seals on red wax.
• The damsel looked long upon the knight, for pale he was as wax, and well she deemed him dead.
• The best ports of Timor for wax are Dili, Cootababa, Ocussi, Sitranny, Nilow, and Manatronto.
• Now close the slit with wax or tallow, making it perfectly tight about the stem.
• At the close of the service, thin wax tapers were presented to the congregation, which each of them lighted.
• The name was there when the French came, as was the wax, and very little else but ruins.
• On one side are the islands of Cuyo and great Paragua, where abundance of wax is gathered.
• They are the ancient inhabitants of the country, and it is they who gather the great abundance of wax which is yielded there.
• But lighted wax candles were set in the windows of every room.
• They hummed melodious music, and built a small wax church at the time the wicked wretch thought they should be collecting honey for him.
• So instead of letting her out, they built a thick wall of wax over the door and left only an opening through which they could feed her.
• But when Belsher began explaining about how the price of wax had to be cut again, to thirty-five centisols a pound, the language those hunters used positively smelled.
• There was a marble-topped centre table in the room, and a basket of wax flowers under a glass case, Mrs.
• When Sir Walter in 1831, wrote a brief essay on ghosts before the law, his memory was no longer the extraordinary engine, wax to receive, and marble to retain, that it had been.
• The use of the crystal sockets was evident, for one shaded wax light burned near me.
• A shawl is a wedding, a piece of wax a little build.

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