BEES-WAX 



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"Beer and Ale. Exports. 



Seer and Ale t Imports in 1872. 



BEER-STONE. A peculiar stone, composed chiefly of carbonate of lime, -which 

 is quarried extensively at Beer, in Devonshire. 



BEES'-WAX. The solid matter forming the cells of the honeycomb, secreted, 

 according to Huber, by an organ situated in the abdomen of the bee. See WAX. 



