Wax"en (?), a.

1.

Made of wax.

"The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells."

Milton.

2.

Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet.

3.

Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding.

Men have marble, women waxen, minds. Shak.

Waxen chatterer Zool., the Bohemian chatterer.

 

© Webster 1913.

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