1. Any of various substances of either mineral origin, plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
   "He applied a coat of wax to protect the wooden furniture"

1. Cover with wax
   "wax the car"
    
2. Go up or advance
   "Sales were waxing after prices were lowered";
   - mount, climb, rise
    
3. Increase in phase
   "the moon is waxing";
   - full
    
4. Say or write, esp. for a long time about a particular topic
   "I've probably waxed on about them for hours"; "He waxed lyrical about the success"
    
5. Remove hair from part of the body by coating the skin with wax that is then pulled off with the hair
   "She decided to wax her legs before the beach vacation"

Sounds like: warranties, warras, wax

Derived forms: waxed, waxes, waxing

Type of: cover, increase, lipid, lipide, lipoid

Encyclopedia: Wax, animal and vegetable