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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wax1

▶noun

1 beeswax.
■ a white translucent material obtained by bleaching and purifying beeswax, used to make candles and polishes.

■ any similar viscous substance, especially a lipid or hydrocarbon.

▶verb

1 polish or treat with wax.
■ remove hair from (a part of the body) by applying wax and then peeling it off with the hairs.

– derivatives
waxer noun,
waxing noun.

– origin OE wæx, weax, of Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wax2

▶verb

1 (of the moon) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to increase in size.

3 speak or write in the specified manner: they waxed lyrical about the old days.

– origin OE weaxan, of Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wax3

▶noun Brit. informal, dated a fit of anger.

– origin C19: origin uncertain; perh. from phrs such as wax angry.

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