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Beeswax.

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Earwax.

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What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?

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Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

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Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

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The phonograph record format for music.

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A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.

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A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil

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Made of wax.

A wax candle stood at each side of the minister's bent bald head with its gray temples.

If it fails to form a hard cake on cooling, a known weight of wax may be added and the product re-heated.

Industry consists chiefly in corn-milling and the preparation of wax and honey.

The principal products are rice, oil-seeds, lac, tussur silk, horns, hides, wax and a little iron.

The honey and the wax of the wild bee are collected by the natives.

Miracles occur at their shrines, and the surviving relatives who guard them wax rich off the offerings brought.

A copper plate having been coated with wax, outline and ornament are cut into the wax, the lettering is impressed with type, and the intaglio thus produced is electrotyped.

The Germans recognized the staple rights of Bruges for a number of commodities, such as wool, wax, furs, copper and grain, and in return for this material contribution to the growing commercial importance of the town, they received in 1309 freedom from the compulsory brokerage which Bruges imposed on foreign merchants.

Industries include the manufacture of cotton fabric, flour and wax candles.

In boiling liquids its formation may be prevented by adding paraffin wax; the wax melts and forms a ring on the surface of the liquid, which boils tranquilly in the centre.

From the time when they began to cast bronze statues, Japanese experts understood how to employ a hollow, removable core round which the metal was run in a skin just thick enough for strength without waste of material; and they also understood the use of wax for modelling purposes.

Many scale-insects are among the most serious of pests, but various species have been utilized by man for the production of wax (lac) and red dye (cochineal).

They are placed upon the trees in the spring, and at the close of the summer they void a peculiar substance which when melted forms wax.

At the same time the combs were preserved for refilling by the bees, in lieu of melting them down for wax.

The wax candles burned brightly, the silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies' toilets and the gold and silver of the men's epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with the animated hum of several conversations.

Try a wax polish to fill scratches and restore shine.

Smooth the dough out on the wax paper with your hands or a rolling pin until it is about a half an inch thick.

A simple plan is as follows - draw an outline of the country of which a map is to be produced upon a board; mark all points the altitude of which is known or can be estimated by pins or wires clipped off so as to denote the heights; mark river-courses and suitable profiles by strips of vellum and finally finish your model with the aid of a good map, in clay or wax.

Another process of producing such blocks is known as cerography (Gr. !crtpbs), wax.

Of the better known metals potassium and sodium are the softest; they can be kneaded between the fingers like wax.

Wax is bleached to a considerable extent, and there are numerous tobacco factories, tanneries, breweries, vinegar works and brandy distilleries.

Honey is a crop of some importance; in 1908 the yield was about 950 tons of honey and 15 tons of wax.

The castor-oil plant is common, and the wax tree grows plentifully in the neighbourhood of Lai-yang in the east, giving rise to a considerable trade in the wax produced by the wax insects.

Unlike those of their kind in Sze Ch`uen, the wax insects of Shan-tung breed and become productive in the same districts.

Exports (principally coffee and wax) are valued at about £55,000 annually, and imports at about the same amount.

A dangerous bar at the mouth of the river permits the entrance only of the smaller coasting steamers, but the port is an important commercial centre, and exports considerable quantities of cotton, hides, manicoba, rubber, fruit, and palm wax.

Various kinds of grafting wax are now obtainable, and are a great improvement upon the clay process.

Raffia - which has taken the place of bast - is generally used for tying, and grafting wax is only used occasionally with such plants under glass.

That such enzymes are formed in the protoplasm is evident from the behaviour of hyphae, which have been observed to pierce cell-membranes, the chitinous coats of insects, artificial collodion films and layers of wax, &c. That a fungus can secrete more than one enzyme, according to the materials its hyphae have to attack, has been shown by the extraction of diastase, inulase, trehalase, invertase, maltase, raffinase, malizitase, emulsin, trypsin and lipase from Aspergillus by Bourquelot, and similar events occur in other fungi.

Silkworms are bred, and some silk is spun; and the export of honey and wax is not inconsiderable.

A cement for Derbyshire spar and china, &c., is composed of 7 parts of rosin and i of wax, with a little plaster of Paris; a small quantity only should be applied to the surfaces to be united, for, as a general rule, the thinner the stratum of a cement, the more powerful its action.

She had once hurt her mother's feelings by refusing to use some wax candles.

He denied - he never ceased to deny - his share in the guilt, and Mary worked on his vanity and his fears, and moulded his " heart of wax " to her will.

The exports include sugar, rum, cotton, hides, skins, rubber, wax, fibres, dyewoods, cacau, mandioca flour, pineapples and other fruits.

Knowing that the water produced by the combustion of alcohol was not pre-existent in that substance but was formed by the combination of its hydrogen with the oxygen of the air, he burnt alcohol and other combustible organic substances, such as wax and oil, in a known volume of oxygen, and, from the weight of the water and carbon dioxide produced and his knowledge of their composition, was able to calculate the amounts of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen present in the substance.

The principal exports are cattle, horses, cheese, butter, honey, wax, flour, paper, hardware and Westphalian coal.

If a statue was to be cast, the figure was first roughly modelled in clay - only rather smaller in all its dimensions than the future bronze; all over this a skin of wax was laid, and worked by the sculptor with modelling tools to the required form and finish.

A mixture of pounded brick, clay and ashes was then ground finely in water to the consistence of cream, and successive coats of this mixture were then applied with a brush, till a second skin was formed all over the wax, fitting closely into every line and depression of the modelling.

The whole was then thoroughly dried, and placed in a hot oven, which baked the clay, both of the core and the outside mould, and melted the wax, which was allowed to run out from small holes made for the purpose.

Thus a hollow was left, corresponding to the skin of wax between the core and the mould, the relative positions of which were preserved by various small rods of bronze, which had previously been driven through from the outer mould to the rough core.

The most skilful sculptors, however, had but little of this after-touching to do, the final modelling and even polish which they had put upon the wax being faithfully reproduced in the bronze casting.

In our well-known hive-bee (Apis) and humble-bees (Bombus) the wax glands are ventral FIG.

Other exports of importance are rum, wax and honey; and of less primary importance, fruits, fine cabinet woods, oils and starch.

The Beni-Abbas tribe in the Algerian Atlas is famed for its walnuts, and many tribes keep bees, chiefly for the commercial value of the wax.

The chief exports are coffee, rubber, wax, palm kernels and palm-oil, cattle and hides and dried or salt fish.

Wax, gum, coffee and ivory are also exported.

Bees are abundant, and wild honey and wax are gathered in considerable quantities.

The women, who do all the work, `collect wax and honey, which are their principal staples in trade.

Odysseus, warned by Circe, escaped the danger by stopping the ears of his crew with wax and binding himself to the mast until he was out of hearing (Odyssey xii.).

Other characteristic plants of the Coastal Plain are the cranberry, wild rice, wild yam, wax myrtle, wistaria, trumpet flower, passion flower, holly and white alder.