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Waxiness :: Waxiness (n.) Quality or state of being waxy.

Waxing :: Waxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wa.

Waxwing :: Waxwing (n.) Any one of several species of small birds of the genus Ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird..

Waxwork :: Waxwork (n.) Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings..

Waxwork :: Waxwork (n.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds..

Waxworker :: Waxworker (n.) One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.

Waxworker :: Waxworker (n.) A bee that makes or produces wax.

Waxy :: Waxy (a.) Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible..

Woad-waxen :: Woad-waxen (n.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen..

Wood-wax :: Wood-wax (n.) Alt. of Wood-waxe.

Wood-waxen :: Wood-waxen (n.) Same as Woadwaxen.

Xylanthrax :: Xylanthrax (n.) Wood coal, or charcoal; -- so called in distinction from mineral coal..

Zax :: Zax (n.) A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.

Zoopraxiscope :: Zoopraxiscope (n.) An instrument similar to, or the same as, the, the phenakistoscope, by means of which pictures projected upon a screen are made to exhibit the natural movements of animals, and the like..