waxen 
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like appendages: as, the icaxeii chatterer (the wax-SCOtt (waks'skot),H. A tax or money pay- 
" " ■ • inentmadebyparishioners to supply the church 
with wax candles. 
wax-tree (waks'tre), «. One of several trees, 
of different localities, the source of some kind 
of vegetable or insect wax. (a) The Japan wax- 
tree, specifically lihlig succedanea, a small tree originally 
from the Loochoo Islands, now extensively planted in Ja- 
pan, especially on the borders of fields, for its small clus- 
tered berries, which yield by expression an excellent can- 
dle-wax. The lacquer-tree, Rhus vernici/era, yields a still 
better wax. (i>) In China, one of several trees yielding the 
pela, or white wax (see wax-), which incrusts their twigs as 
tlie result of the puncture of an insect. One of the most 
important is a species of privet, Lif/ustrum luciduni; an- 
other is an ash, Fraxinus Chiiiemds. Liguatrum Ihoia 
appears to furnish a variety of the same product, (c) A 
plant of the genus Vwnia, which consists of trees and 
shrubs abounding in a yellow resinous juice. This is 
collected from some South American species, particu- 
larly V. Ouianengis, and from its qualities is sometimes 
called American gamboge, (d) The Colombian varnish- 
tree, Elleagia utilu. (e) The wax-myrtle, Myrica ceri/era. 
[Rare.] 
A fragrant shrub, called the Anenilche by the Indians, 
had attracted the attention of the government. It is the 
wax-tree, or candle-berry (Myrica cerifera), of which the 
wax is used for making candles. 
Gayarr&, Hist. Louisiana, I. 520. 
wax-weed (waks'wed), n. An American herb, 
Cuplwa viscosis8ima, sometimes designated as 
clammy cuphea. It is a brandling plant with purple 
stems covered with extremely viscid hairs; the petals of 
the small flowers are also purple. The full name is Uxie 
Bohemian waxwing 
waxen-t (wak'su). An obsolete or archaic past 
participle of wnji. 
waxen^ (wak'sn). Archaic present indicative 
plural of icaj-l. 
wax-end (waks'end'), «. Same as waxed end 
(which see, under icax^). 
waxer (wak'ser), n. 1. One who smears or 
treats anything with wax, as in waxing floors 
or preparing waxed leather. — 2. In a sewing- 
machine, an attachment for appl>-ing a film of 
wax to the thread as it passes from the spool 
to the needle : used only on machines for sew- 
ing leather and heavy fabrics. 
waxflower (waks'Hou'er), ». 1. See Clusia. — 
2. See Slephauotis.—S. Same as wax-plant. 
wax-gourd (waks'gord), II. The white gourd, 
Benincasa cerifera (B. hispida). See bcnmcasa. 
waxiness (wak'si-nes), n, A waxy appearance 
or character. 
waxing (wak'sing), n. [< ME. toaxyiu/c; ver- 
bal n. ot wax'^, r.] 1. The coating of thread 
with wax previous to sewing. — 2. A method of 
blacking, dressing, and polishing leatlier, to 
give it a finish. — 3. In calico-priiiting, the pro- 
cess of stopping out colors. 
wax-insect (waks'in'sekt), n. 1. One of vari- 
ous eoecids or bark-lice which secrete wax ; a 
wax-scale. Nearly all the Coccidee secrete a kind of 
wax-weed. 
wax, but that of but few is abundant enough to be of com- y^aXWlng (waks' wing), H. An oscine passerine 
Zi:^t!a (^^f^oJ^^S^Ta'^ilTi^ Wrd of tie genus Ampeli, (or Bo»%c/««). fam- 
- ^ ■■ ■• - - ■■ '. . .. ily Ampehdse : so called because the seconaary 
lated to the cochineal bug. It furnishes most of tlie 
white wax of commerce, specified as Chhiene wax and 
pela. This insect, a native of China, occurs upon plants 
of the genera lUiiig, Ligustrwin, Hibiscus, Celastrus, etc. 
The wax is said to be mainly secreted by the male. It is 
collected from the plants on which it is deposited, melted 
and clarified, and made into a very liigh class of candles 
used in China. It has been imported in England for the 
same purpose, but is too expensive for general use. (Ji) 
Any member of the geuns Ceroplastes. The females se- 
crete much wax, usually deposited on the body in regular 
plates. C. eeri/erus is an Indian wax-scale ; C. myricse 
(an old Linnean species) is found at the Cape of Good Hope ; 
C. ftoridensis is a wax-scale of Florida ; C. cirripediformis 
is the barnacle-scale, (c) A scale of the genus Cerococcus, 
as C. quercus, which secretes large masses of briglit-yellow 
wax upon the twigs of various oaks, as Quercus undulata, 
Q. agrifolia, and Q. ohloiig-ifolia, in Arizona and California. 
2. One of various insects of the ta.rm\y Fulgori- 
(Ise, and of one of the genera Phenux, Lystra, 
and Plata . in the case of the species of Lystra, the wax 
is secreted in long white strings from the end of the ab- 
domen. This wax is said to be used in the manufacture 
of candles in the East Indies and China. 
wax-light (waks'lit), n. [= D. waslicM = 6. 
■wachslicht (cf. Icel. vaxljon, Sw. vaxljns, Dan. 
voMys) ; as wax" + lU/ht^.'] A candle, taper, or 
night-light made of wax. 
The only alternative would have been wax-Ufjhts at half 
a crown a pound. T. A. TroUope, What I Eemember. 
wax-modeling (waks'mod'el-ing), «. The art 
or process of forming flgures,relief s, ornaments, 
etc., in wax. See ceroplastic. 
wax-moth (waks'moth), n. A bee-moth; any 
member of the family Galcriidee. See Galeria, 
and cut under bee-moth. 
wax-myrtle (waks'mer"tl), ti. The bayberry. 
quills of the wiugs, and sometimes other fea- 
thers of the wiugs or tail, are tipped with small 
red horny appendages resembling sealing-wax. 
There are three species — the Bohemian waxwing or chat- 
terer, A. yarrulus, of the northern hemisphere generally. 
way 
Specifically — 2. Noting certain compleziong. 
(a) Pallid or blanched ; of a translucent pallor, aa in blood- 
iessness. (b) Of a dull, pa.sty, whitish color, sometimes 
inclining to the yellowishness of raw beeswax. This is a 
complexion almost diagnostic of the so-called scrofulous 
or cancerous diathesis, and of persons in whom the opinm 
habit is confirmed and of long standing. 
3. Made of wax; abounding in wax; waxed: 
as, a waxy dressing for leather Waxy degen- 
eration, (a) Same astardacemii disease (whit-h see, un- 
der lardaceous). (b) A change of parts of the muscular 
fibers into a peculiar hyaline substance, which differs from 
lardaceiu ; it occurs in certain cases of typhoid fever, 
meningitis, and other acute febrile disorders. — Waxy 
liver, kidney, spleen, etc., a liver, kidney, spleen, etc., 
which has undergone waxy degeneration. 
waxy2 (wak'si), a. [< icajS -|- -i^l.] Angry; 
wrathy; irate. [Slang.] 
It would cheer him up more than anything if I could 
make him a little waxy with me. 
Dickens, Bleak House, xiiv. 
wayl (wa), u. [Early mod. E. also waye, waie ; 
< ME. way, wai, wey, wei, weye, weie, wtei, < AS. 
weq = OS. weg = OFries. icei = MD. wegh, D. weg 
= "MLG. LG. wetj = OHG. MHG. wee, (i. weg 
= Icel. vegr = Svp. vdg = Dan. re; = Goth, wigs, 
a way, road, = L. via, OL. rea, orig. "reha = 
Lith. weza, track of a cart, = Skt. veiho, a road, 
way; from the verb represented by AS. wegan, 
etc., bear, carry, = L. vchere, carry, = Skt. V 
rail, carry : see weigli^. From the same verb are 
ult. E. wain^ and wagon, etc., and, from the L., 
vehicle, etc. For the E. words from L. via, see 
(•(((1. Hence aicay (reduced to way^), and way- 
ward, etc.] 1. The track or path bypassing 
over or along which some place has been or 
may be reached ; a course leading from one 
place to another ; a road ; a street ; a passage, 
channel, or route ; a line of march, progression, 
or motion : as, the way to market or to school ; 
a broad or a narrow way. 
Men seyu that the Wlcanes ben Weyes of Helle. 
MandeviUe, Travels, p. 55. 
A grene ^cey thou schalt fynde. 
That geth as euene as he may to paradys the on ende ; 
Ther bisonde thi Modur and ich. 
Holy Bood (E. E. T. S.), p. 23. 
The worst wayes that ever I travelled in all my life in 
the Sommer were those betwixt Chamberie and Aigue- 
belle. Coryat, Crudities, I. 83. 
I fear I shall never find the v>ay to church, because the 
bells hang so far. 
Dekker and Webster, Northwiml Ho, ii. 1. 
The road to resolution lies by doubt ; 
The next way home 's the farthest way about. 
Quarles, Emblems, iv., Epig. 2. 
I hope our way does not lie over any of these [hillsl, for 
I dread a precipice. Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 228. 
Ruhemian Waxwing (.Amftlis trnrrulus). 
breeding in high latitudes, and migrating southward irreg- 
ularly, sometimes in flocks of vast extent ; the red-winged 
Japanese waxwing, A. phognicoplera ; and the smaller Car- 
olina waxwing, cedar-bird, cedar-lark, cherry -bird, etc., of 
North America, A. eedrorum, the prib chatterer of La- 
tham, 1785. The sealing-wax tips arc the enlarged, har- 
dened, and peculiarly modified prolongation of the shaft 
of the feather, composed of central and peripheral sub- 
stances differing in the shape of the pigment-cells, which 
contain abundance of red and yellow coloring matter. 
Their use is unknown. 
l/yncrt ceWfera ; so named from its wax-beariiig waxwork (waks'werk), n. 1. Work in wax; 
" ■ ' ■ " " especially, figures or ornaments made of wax ; 
in ordinary usage, figures, as of real persons, 
usually of life-size, and more or less of decep- 
tive resemblance, the heads, hands, etc., being 
in wax, and the rest of the figure so set up and 
clothed as to increase the imitative effect. 
niits and shining myrtle-like leaves. Sometimes 
candleherry andtalloir-ishrub. See Myrica (with 
cut). The wax-myrtle of California is chiefly M. Cali/or- 
■tiica, a close erect evergreen shrub, or a tree even .SO feet 
high. 
wax-painting (waks'pan'ting), n. Encaustic 
painting. See encaustic. 
wax-palm (waks'pam), «. See Ceroxyloii and 
Copernicia. 
wax-paper (waks'pa"per), n. A kind of paper 
jjrepared by spreading over its surface a coat- 
ing made of white wax, turpentine, and sperma- 
ceti. 
wax-pine (waks'pin), n. The general name for 
the species of Agathis (Dammara), coniferous 
trees producing a large amount of resin. 
wax-pink (waks'pingk), n. A name for gar- 
den species of Portiilaca: so called from their 
wax-like leaves and showy flowers. 
wax-plant (waks'plant), «. See Hoya. 
wax-pocket (waks'pok"et), «. In eiitoiii., one 
On Wednesday last Mrs. Cioldsmith, the famous Woman 
for Waxwork, brought to Westminster Abbey the Effigies 
of that celebrated Beauty the late Duchess of Richmond, 
which is said to be the richest Figure that ever was set up 
in King Henry's Chapel. 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
(I. 283. 
2. pi. A place where a collection of such fig- 
ures is exhibited. — 3. The climbing bitter- 
sweet, Celastrus scandeim : so named on account 
of the waxy scarlet aril of the fruit. See Celas- 
trus and staff-tree. Also called Poxbiiry wax- 
work. 
waxworker (waks'wer'''ker), «. 1. One who 
works in wax ; a maker of waxwork. — 2. A 
bee which makes wax. 
of several stnall openings between the ventral ^^^.^orm (waks'werm), «. The larva of the 
wax-moth 
segments of the abdomen of a bee, from 
thin plates of wax exude, 
wax-polish (waks'pol'''ish), n. See polish'^ 
wax-red (waks'red), a. Of a bright-red color, 
resembling that of sealing-wax. 
Set thy seal-manu.ll on my wax-red lips. 
Shak., Veims and Adonis, 1. 516. 
wax-scale (waks'skal), n. A scale-insect which 
secretes wax. See wax-insect, 1. 
waxyi (wak'si), a. [< wax- + -(/!.] 1. Resem- 
bling wax or putty in appearance, softness, 
plasticity, adhesiveness, or other properties; 
waxen; hence, pliable; yielding; impression- 
able. 
That the softer waxy part of you may receive s<ime im- 
pression from this discourse, let us close all with an ap- 
plication. Hammond, Works, III. ti2t>. 
if prince or peer cross Darrell's way. 
He'll beard him in his pride. 
Scott, Eokeby, 
T. 27. 
2. A passage along some particular path or 
course ; progress ; journey ; transit ; coming or 
going. 
The Lord . . . » ill send his augel with thee, and pros- 
per thy imy. Gen. xxiv. 40. 
Shut the doors against his way. 
Shak.C. of E., iv. 3.92. 
The next day we again set sail, and made the best of 
our ivay, till we were forced, by contrary winds, into St. 
Remo, a very pretty town in the Genoese dominions. 
Addison, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 359. 
The ship (barring accidents) will touch at no other port 
on her way out W. Collins, Moonstone, vi. 6. 
3. Length of space; distance: as, the church 
is but a little way from here. In this sense, in 
colloquial use, often erroneously ways. 
Tliy servant will go a little way over Jordan. 
2 Sam. xix. 36. 
I here fli-st saw the hills a considerable way off to the 
east, no hills appearing that way from the parts almut 
Damascus. Pucocke, Description of the East, II. i. 138. 
I charge thee ride before. 
Ever a good way on before. Tennyson, Geraint. 
4. Direction as of motion or position : as, he 
comes this way. 
Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea, . . . 
Now sways it that way, like the selfsame sea, 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 5. 5. 
The Kingdome of Congo is about 600. miles diameter 
any way. Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 49. 
Three Goddesses for this contend ; 
See, now they descend. 
And this Way they bend. 
Congreve, Judgment of Paris. 
O friend ! I he.ar some step of hostile feet. 
Moving this icay, or hastening to the fleet. 
Pope, Iliad, x. 406. 
No two windows look one way 
O'er the small sea-water thread 
Below them. Browning, In a Gondola. 
5. Path or course in life. 
The way of transgressoi-s is hard. 
Prov. xiii. 15. 
