Crossword-Solution: WAXEN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Waxen | - | of Wax |
| Waxen | a. | Made of wax. |
| Waxen | a. | Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet. |
| Waxen | a. | Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WAXEN (5)
Holmes.” “Yes, I am doing so.” “You are aware that no two thumb-marks are alike?” “I have heard something of the kind.” “Well, then, will you please compare that print with this wax impression of young McFarlane’s right thumb, taken by my orders this morning?” As he held the waxen print close to the blood-stain, it did not take a magnifying glass to see that the two were undoubtedly from the same thumb.
There they were, showering down from the big waxen bells of the magnolias far above her head, and from the jessamine clumps around her.
Then who knows" (and here he sunk his voice well nigh to a whisper) "but thou and I together may rule in Utterbol and make better days there." Ralph was waxen master of himself by now, and was gotten wary indeed, so he made as if he liked Otter's counsel well, and became exceeding gay; for indeed the heart within him was verily glad at the thought of his escaping from thralldom; for more than ever now he was fast in his mind to flee at the time appointed by Redhead.
But he gave Rowland an odd sense of looking at a little waxen image, adjusted to perform certain gestures and emit certain sounds.
Holmes.” “Yes, I am doing so.” “You are aware that no two thumb marks are alike?” “I have heard something of the kind.” “Well, then, will you please compare that print with this wax impression of young McFarlane's right thumb, taken by my orders this morning?” As he held the waxen print close to the blood-stain it did not take a magnifying glass to see that the two were undoubtedly from the same thumb.
Quotes with WAXEN (3)
But there she was, standing next to his mother, so beautiful, so radiant that he could not see anyone else. Suddenly the rest of the world seemed like such a chore. He didn’t want to be here at this dance, with people he didn’t want to talk to and messages he didn’t particularly wish to deliver. He didn’t want to dance with young ladies he didn’t know, and he didn’t want to make polite conversation with people he did. He just wanted Billie, and he wanted her all to himself. H…
To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen brow of death: ah, that is something like it. A delicious straying away from the world, and never the return. As only the unreal is not ignoble and empty, existence must be admitted to be abominable. Yes, imagination is the only good thing which heaven vouchsafes to the skeptic and pessimist, alarmed by the eternal abjectness of life.
Do I, then, belong to the heavens? Why, if not so, should the heavens Fix me thus with their ceaseless blue stare, Luring me on, and my mind, higher Ever higher, up into the sky, Drawing me ceaselessly up To heights far, far above the human? Why, when balance has been strictly studied And flight calculated with the best of reason Till no aberrant element should, by rights, remain-Why, still, should the lust for ascension Seem, in itself, so close to madness? Nothing is that c…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 49 times in crossword archives (1977–2025).