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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WAXEN, a. Made of wax; as waxen cells.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy" [syn: waxen, waxy]
2: having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness" [syn: waxen, waxlike, waxy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: before 12th century 1. made of or covered with wax 2. resembling wax: as a. easily molded ; pliable b. seeming to lack vitality or animation ; pallid c. lustrously smooth

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 having a smooth pale translucent surface as of wax. 2 able to receive impressions like wax; plastic. 3 archaic made of wax.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wax Wax, v. i. [imp. Waxed; p. p. Waxed, and Obs. or Poetic Waxen; p. pr. & vb. n. Waxing.] [AS. weaxan; akin to OFries. waxa, D. wassen, OS. & OHG. wahsan, G. wachsen, Icel. vaxa, Sw. v["a]xa, Dan. voxe, Goth. wahsjan, Gr. ? to increase, Skr. waksh, uksh, to grow. ???. Cf. Waist.] 1. To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane. The waxing and the waning of the moon. --Hakewill. Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane. --P. Plowman. 2. 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. Your clothes are not waxen old upon you. --Deut. xxix. 5. Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound. --Milton. Waxing kernels (Med.), small tumors formed by the enlargement of the lymphatic glands, especially in the groins of children; -- popularly so called, because supposed to be caused by growth of the body. --Dunglison.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Waxen Wax"en, a. 1. Made of wax. ``The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells.'' --Milton. 2. Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet. 3. Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding. Men have marble, women waxen, minds. --Shak. Waxen chatterer (Zo["o]l.), the Bohemian chatterer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A waxen face is very pale and looks very unhealthy. (LITERARY) ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Wax-like, waxy. 2. Soft, yielding, tender. 3. Wax-covered. 4. Of wax.

Moby Thesaurus

achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic, colorless, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, doughy, dull, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, ghastly, gray, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, lackluster, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, tallow-faced, toneless, uncolored, wan, washed-out, weak, whey-faced, white