wax down

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1. 1

   To rub or polish with wax to create a slick, shiny and/or waterproof coating

   To rub or polish with wax to create a slick, shiny and/or waterproof coating; to wax.

   • We're waxin' down our surfboards / We can't wait for June
   • So the next afternoon we weren't doing anything and it was fairly warm, we got rags and waxed down his plane.
   • She waxed down the floor and found a small table and matching chair at Goodwill.
2. 2

   To stiffen by coating or permeating with wax.

   • The paper should be as thin and tough as possible – for example, typewriter paper, The equal sheets thus prepared must now be waxed down by aid of a hot iron on the carefully prepared wooden boards, paper side out.
   • In picking up the loops, the weaver probably used some kind of bodkin, or possibly she knew how to wax down the ends of her threads to a fine point,
   • Do not forget to wax down your bowstring periodically, as well.
3. 3

   To coat (hair) with an oily or waxy substance in order to hold it in place.

   • She divided the rest of the hair into 4 equal parts, twisted each part and tied it into 3 knots. Those she waxed down to my skull with 4 pins to the knot .
   • And sweaty-man, there wasn't even a rumor of the Old Spice he'd used to wax down his pits that morning.
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   1. 4

      To generate a layer of wax that completely covers.

      • By the description of his cover for the bees to wax down, it was not properly braced, as the dovetailed end is made by different manufacturers.
      • How can I insert candy without chilling bees, as their outer covering at present is a bag of cork-dust, which seems (as far as I can tell without lifting) waxed down to the frames?
   2. 5

      To seal over with wax, in order to make airtight and watertight.

      • Solid caustic potash must always be kept in well-stoppered bottles, which when not in use may be waxed down.
      • This time Kim thought in the vernacular as he waxed down the oilskin edges of the packets.
   3. 6

      To paste into place using wax.

      • Then muslin was waxed down onto the surface, to bind it, and the panel was lifted in one piece.
      • The wafers chosen were individually waxed down on microscope glass slides.
   4. 7

      To taper off

      To taper off; to gradually quiet or diminish.

      • See how sin, even from Adam to Cain, had grown up to murder and defiance of God! See how it then waxed down to the death of all flesh in the judgment of the flood!
      • You may remember — and this is the last example I will give as I begin to wax down — there was this incredible problem back in the 1980s of the 747s across the Pacific at 40,000 feet suddenly losing all four engines in mid-flight.
      • His heart waxed down and angriness shed away.

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