Usually means: Substance for coating, polishing, sealing.
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We found 63 dictionaries that define the word Wax:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. wax: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wax: Merriam-Webster
  3. wax, wax, wax, wax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wax, wax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wax: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wax: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wax, wax: Wordnik
  8. wax: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Wax, wax: Wiktionary
  10. wax: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wax: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wax: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wax: Dictionary.com
  14. wax (n.), wax (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wax: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. WAX, Wax (Indochine album), Wax (KT Tunstall album), Wax (UK band), Wax (band), Wax (disambiguation), Wax (pop band), Wax (rapper), Wax (rock band), Wax (singer), Wax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wax: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wax: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wax: Rhymezone
  20. wax: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wax: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. wax: FreeDictionary.org
  23. wax: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. wax: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. wax: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. wax: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Wax: Marquetry Glossary
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Wax: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Wax: Energy Dictionary
  5. wax: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wax: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. wax: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. wax: Medical dictionary
  6. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. WAX: Acronym Finder
  4. WAX: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. wax: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wax: Easton Bible

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wax: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wax, wax, wax, wax, wax, wax, wax: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  3. Wax: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  5. WAX: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See waxed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Wax)

noun:  Beeswax.
noun:  Earwax.
noun:  Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
noun:  Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
noun:  (uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.
noun:  (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
noun:  (US, slang) Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.
adjective:  Made of wax.
verb:  (transitive) To coat with wax or a similar material.
verb:  (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
verb:  (transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
verb:  (intransitive, literary) To greaten.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
verb:  (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
verb:  (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
noun:  (rare) The process of growing.
noun:  (dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
noun:  A surname.

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