waxen

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Grown.

2. 2

   alternative past participle of wax.

3. 3

   plural simple present of wax

   • 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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   1. 4

      Made of or covered with wax.

      • a waxen tablet
      • She is fair; and so is Julia that I love— That I did love, for now my love is thaw’d; Which, like a waxen image, ’gainst a fire, Bears no impression of the thing it was.
      • [T]o the altar each man brought some goodly offering, […] a waxen honey-comb / Dripping with oozy gold which scarce the bee / Had ceased from building, […]
   2. 5

      Of or pertaining to wax.

   3. 6

      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.
   4. 7

      Easily molded, influenced, or bent

      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.’
   5. 8

      Easily effaced, as if written in wax.

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