Usually means: Substances that are moldable, protective.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. waxes: Merriam-Webster
  2. waxes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. waxes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Waxes, waxes: Wordnik
  5. waxes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Waxes, waxes: Wiktionary
  7. waxes: Dictionary.com
  8. waxes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Waxes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. waxes: FreeDictionary.org
  11. waxes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. waxes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. waxes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. waxes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. waxes: Medical dictionary

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  1. waxes: Idioms

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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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