adjective
definition
Grown.
Examples of waxen in a Sentence
Small waxen images of the Manes called Lares, clothed in dogskin, and on feast days crowned with garlands, stood round the family hearth of which they were the unseen guardians (but see Lares).
Perverse discourses and oppressive deeds were waxen rife.
His pale waxen face was still freckled and his eyes were rolled back.
And because his face was not pale, but had that waxen bloom still upon it that belongs to a barber 's dummy.
The scope of the archaeologist's studies must include every department of the ancient history of man as preserved in antiquities of whatever character, be they tumuli along the Baltic, fossil skulls and graven bones from the caves of France, the flint implements, pottery, and mummies of Egypt, tablets and bas-reliefs from Mesopotamia, coins and sculptures of Greece and Rome, or inscriptions, waxen tablets, parchment rolls, and papyri of a relatively late period of classical antiquity.
A swarm of bees hived in a straw skep, the picturesque little domicile known the world over as the personification of industry, will furnish their home with waxen combs in form and shape so admirably adapted to their requirements as to need no improvement by man.
In 1843 a German bee-keeper, Krechner by name, conceived the idea of first dipping fine linen into molten wax, then pressing the sheets so made between rollers, and thus forming a waxen midrib on which the bees would build their combs.
They had all died after the women had made waxen images of their victims which they had pierced with hawthorns.
A wood fire burned upon the hearth, and two waxen tapers flung their light on a mirror, set in richly chased silver.
The latter was a great magician, able, by operating upon waxen figures of the armies and ships of his enemies, to obtain complete power over their real actions.
Smaethmannia trees are thickly set at this season with large blossoms of waxen white.
She starts her nest underground or in a surface depression, forming a number of waxen cells, roughly globular in shape and arranged irregularly.
The employment of chalk as an ingredient in many seals Waxen im= of the 12th century has caused them to become ex- pressions.