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Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon..

Statue :: Statue (n.) The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion..

Cerosin :: Cerosin (n.) A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae..

Beeswax :: Beeswax (n.) The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed..

Chafewax :: Chafewax (n.) Alt. of Chaffwa.

Overwax :: Overwax (v. i.) To wax or grow too rapindly or too much.

Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration

Ceroma :: Ceroma (n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.

Ceroplasty :: Ceroplasty (n.) The art of modeling in wax.

Jack :: Jack (n.) A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack.

Wax :: Wax (v. i.) 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..

Ceroplastic :: Ceroplastic (a.) Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure..

Wax :: Wax (n.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite..

Cerography :: Cerography (n.) A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.

Vesta :: Vesta (n.) A wax friction match.

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

Wax :: Wax (n.) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc..

Ceroplastic :: Ceroplastic (a.) Relating to the art of modeling in wax.

Model :: Model (v. i.) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax..

Theobromic :: Theobromic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from cacao butter (from the Theobroma Cacao), peanut oil (from Arachis hypogaea), etc., as a white waxy crystalline substance..

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