Crossword-Solution: WAX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wax | v. i. | To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane. |
| Wax | v. i. | 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. |
| Wax | n. | 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. |
| Wax | n. | Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance. |
| Wax | n. | Cerumen, or earwax. |
| Wax | n. | A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc. |
| Wax | n. | A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread. |
| Wax | n. | A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below. |
| Wax | n. | A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable. |
| Wax | n. | A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite. |
| Wax | n. | Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling. |
| Wax | v. t. | To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
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Hint 2 anagram
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with WAX (5)
But it had been brought about by misdirected ingenuity, and she valued it only as she valued an artificial flower or a wax fruit.
Mighty was their fuss about little matters, and marvellous, sometimes, the obtuseness that allowed greater ones to slip between their fingers! Whenever such a mischance occurred—when a waggon-load of valuable merchandise had been smuggled ashore, at noonday, perhaps, and directly beneath their unsuspicious noses—nothing could exceed the vigilance and alacrity with which they proceeded to lock, and double-lock, and secure with tape and sealing-wax, all the avenues of the delinquent vessel.
Rare: so/al-ready; lparen/rparen; ; open/close round bracket, parenthisey/unparenthisey; [wax/wane]; left/right ear.
Groping his way toward the far end of the chamber, he sought the candle which Tarzan had left stuck in its own wax upon the protruding end of an ingot.
Thus, in the most brutal and formidable off the soldier class—creatures almost on a level with women in their lack of intelligence—it is found that, as they wax in the mental ability necessary to employ their tremendous penetrating power to advantage, so do they wane in the power of penetration itself.
Quotes with WAX (3)
The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set …
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is first ignited by the disposable butane lighter of physical attraction, but sooner or later the heat of familiarity causes the wax of boredom to drip all over the vanilla frosting of novelty and the shredded coconut of romance.' I could not have phrased it better myself.
Water everywhere, falling in thundering cataracts, singular drops, and draping sheets. Kellhus paused next to one of the shining braziers, peered beneath the bronze visage that loomed orange and scowling over his father, watched him lean back into absolute shadow.“You came to the world,” unseen lips said, “and you saw that Men were like children.” Lines of radiance danced across the intervening waters.“It is their nature to believe as their fathers believed,” the darkness con…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 189 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).