Beeswax.
The process of growing.
An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
father Arnall's face looked very black but he was not in a wax: he was laughing.
Made of wax.
He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
A surname.
From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *woḱ-so-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch ...
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To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.