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waxen a. 象蜡一样软的,蜡色的,苍白的 象蜡一样软的,蜡色的,苍白的 waxen adj 1: made of or covered with wax; " waxen candles"; " careful, the floor is waxy" [ synonym: { waxen}, { waxy}] 2: having the paleness of wax; " the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; " the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; " a thin face with a waxy paleness" [ synonym: { waxen}, { waxlike}, { waxy}] Wax \ Wax\ ( w[ a^] ks), v. i. [ imp. { Waxed}; p. p. { Waxed}, and Obs. or Poetic { Waxen}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Waxing}.] [ AS. weaxan; akin to OFries. waxa, D. wassen, OS. & OHG. wahsan, G. wachsen, Icel. vaxa, Sw. v[ aum] xa, Dan. voxe, Goth. wahsjan, Gr. ? to increase, Skr. waksh, uksh, to grow. [ root] 135. Cf. { Waist}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane. [ 1913 Webster] The waxing and the waning of the moon. -- Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster] Truth' s treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane. -- P. Plowman. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse. [ 1913 Webster] Your clothes are not waxen old upon you. -- Deut. xxix. 5. [ 1913 Webster] Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] { Waxing kernels} ( Med.), small tumors formed by the enlargement of the lymphatic glands, especially in the groins of children; -- popularly so called, because supposed to be caused by growth of the body. -- Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster]
Waxen \ Wax" en\, a. 1. Made of wax. " The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding. [ 1913 Webster] Men have marble, women waxen, minds. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { Waxen chatterer} ( Zool.), the Bohemian chatterer. [ 1913 Webster] 57 Moby Thesaurus words for " waxen": achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic, colorless, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, doughy, dull, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, ghastly, gray, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, lackluster, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale- faced, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, tallow- faced, toneless, uncolored, wan, washed- out, weak, whey- faced, white
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