waxdoll (waksdol)

1. A child's doll of which the head and bust are made of beeswax combined with other ingredients to give it hard-ne .-2. pl. The common fumitory, Fumaria officinal is: so called from the texture and color of its white or flesh-colored flowers. Britten and Holland. [Prov. Eng.] waxenl (wak'sn), a. [ tablet. She is fair; and so is Julia that I love- That I did love, for now my love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, Bears no impre ion of the thing it was. Shak., T. G. of V., ii. 4. 201. I beheld through a pretty crystall gla e by the light of a waxen candle. Coryat, Crudities, I. 48. 2. Resembling wax; soft as wax; waxy. For men have marble, women wazen, minds. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 1240. 3. Easily effaced, as if written in wax. [Rare.] A waxen epitaph. Shak., Hen. V., i. 2. 233. 4. In zoöl.: (a) Being or consisting of wax: as, the waxen cells of honeycomb. (b) Like wax; waxy. (1) Like wax in apparent texture or consistency. Compare waxbill. (2) Waxy in color; of a dull-yellowish color, like raw beeswax. (ct) Waxed; having wax The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-2151.png:[blocks in formation] wax-end (waks'end'), n. (which see, under wax2 ). Same as waxed end