Waxen

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  • adjective. Made of or covered with wax.
  • adjective. Pale or smooth as wax.
  • adjective. Weak, pliable, or impressionable.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Archaic present indicative plural of wax.
  • An obsolete or archaic past participle of wax.
  • Made of wax; covered with wax: as, a waxen tablet.
  • Resembling wax; soft as wax; waxy.
  • Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
  • In zoology:
  • Being or consisting of wax: as, the waxen cells of honeycomb.
  • Like wax; waxy.
  • Waxed; having wax-like appendages: as, the waxen chatterer (the Bohemian waxwing).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Made of wax.
  • adjective. Covered with wax; waxed.
  • adjective. Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding.
  • adjective. the Bohemian chatterer.
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  • adjective. Grown.
  • verb. Alternative past participle of wax.
  • adjective. Made of wax; covered with wax.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to wax.
  • adjective. Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
  • adjective. Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
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  • adjective. having the paleness of wax
  • adjective. made of or covered with wax
  • Word Usage
    "What might be called the waxen period had set in, and the high colourless features seemed to be modelled in that soft, semi-transparent material."