bees'-wax

They should then be taken down and rubbed over with a composition of bees'-wax, tallow, and neats-foot oil, [N] and again hung up to allow the grease to sink into the leather.

Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

Dust, dirt, varnish, and bees'-wax are thrown away upon him; he knows the work of every man, of note or of no note, whether

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

A deep bowl of ivy-wood, too, I will give thee, rubbed with sweet bees'-wax, a twy-eared bowl newly wrought, smacking still of the knife of the graver.

Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

The Arabs make a salve of bees'-wax and sulphate of copper, and this applied hot, and held on by a bandage affords support, but the necessity of letting the ichor escape renders it a painful remedy: I had three ulcers, and no medicine.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

Almost all the people, however, were away on some excursion after edible birds'-nests or bees'-wax, and there only remained in the house two or three old men and women with a lot of children.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

It was therefore with much excitement that he learned from a party of bees'-wax hunters, on the second morning of their expedition, that a large male mias had been seen that very day.

Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago 1859

But the Dyaks love honey and value wax as an article of trade; they therefore erect their ingenious bamboo ladder -- which can be prolonged to any height on the smooth branchless stem of the Tappan -- and storm the stronghold of the bees with much profit to themselves, for bees'-wax will purchase from the traders the brass wire, rings, gold-edged kerchiefs and various ornaments with which they decorate themselves.

Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago 1859

It was therefore with much excitement that he learned from a party of bees'-wax hunters, on the second morning of their expedition, that a large male mias had been seen that very day.

Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata 1859

But the Dyaks love honey and value wax as an article of trade; they therefore erect their ingenious bamboo ladder -- which can be prolonged to any height on the smooth branchless stem of the Tappan -- and storm the stronghold of the bees with much profit to themselves, for bees'-wax will purchase from the traders the brass wire, rings, gold-edged kerchiefs and various ornaments with which they decorate themselves.

Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata 1859

The head, and the portion of the handle which embraces it, then receive a plentiful coating of bees'-wax, and the weapon is ready for use.

Australian Search Party Charles Henry Eden 1858