wax
/wæks/ noun B1- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Beeswax (a wax secreted by bees).
- Earwax (a wax secreted by the ears). · What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- The phonograph record format for music.
- Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil. · He was charged with two felonies, for possession of Xanax and wax.
Plural waxes
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On one corner of this was stuck the stump of a red wax candle.
There was a candle flickerin’ on the mantelpiece—a red wax one—and by its light I saw——”
I could tell you tales of cobbler’s wax which would disgust you with human nature.’ He stepped over to the window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the vacancy was filled.
I took a wax-candle in one hand, and with the other groped about for a piece of paper (my match-box being empty), with which I proposed to get a light from the small flame still playing on the embers.
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