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Grown.UKdialectal
waxen
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alternative past participle of wax.alternativearchaicform-of
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plural simple present of waxform-ofobsoleteplural
- When the rayne is faln, the cloudes wexen cleare.
- and then the whole Quire hould their hippes, and loffe, and waxen in their myrth, and neeze, and ſweare a merrier hower was neuer waſted there.
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Made of or covered with wax.
- a waxen tablet
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Of or pertaining to wax.
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Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
- It was hard to imagine that the broken thing had once been new; that those withered, waxen cheeks had been fresh and tinted. That her eyes had long ago glinted with laughter.
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Easily molded, influenced, or bent; yielding, impressible.
- The traveller hears me now and then, And sometimes harshly will he speak: ‘This fellow would make weakness weak, And melt the waxen hearts of men.’
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Easily effaced, as if written in wax.rare