Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The yellow to grayish-brown wax secreted by the honeybee for constructing honeycombs.
- n. Commercial wax obtained by processing and purifying the crude wax of the honeybee and used in making candles, crayons, and polishes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The wax secreted by bees, of which their cells are constructed. See wax.
Wiktionary
- n. A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods.
- n. colloquial “Business”; in phrases like mind your own beeswax and none of your beeswax.
- v. To polish (something) with beeswax.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.
WordNet 3.0
- v. cover with beeswax
- n. a yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs
Etymologies
- From bees + 's + wax (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I do know that beeswax is available, but at what cost?”
“To add insult to injury, the soap lathers badly - perhaps because beeswax is not a natural lathering agent.”
“He sputtered back that the viscosity of melted beeswax is different than urine and blood, the two things he most commonly pours.”
“On Good Friday, a fellow parishioner was handing out bunches of nine thin beeswax candles (homemade) for praying the Divine Mercy Novena.”
“As with a lot of the beadwork, the surface of a plywood board is first coated in beeswax that is softened in the sun.”
“The thin beeswax coating also contributes a slight chewiness to these that isn’t noticeable in the fresh version.”
“Unfortunately, most candles today are not made of beeswax, which is very expensive; although I like the idea very much, I'm not sure what the advantage might be of singing untruthfully about bees and their work.”
“They are rich in cattle, and their country produces much beeswax, which is carefully collected, and brought to the Portuguese, with whom they have always been on good terms.”
“The beeswax is a still more important and valuable product, formed by the wild bees (Apis dorsata), which build huge honeycombs, suspended in the open air from the underside of the lofty branches of the highest trees.”
“On a more personal note, it was gratifying to read Judge Mayer calling beeswax on the Chakrabarty Court's turning of the legislative history on its head in regard to "anything under the sun that is made by man.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘beeswax’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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AGRI - apiculture
lucerne, HMF, Heather, harvest, glucose, honey, fluid, Erica, Gaucho, microscopic, enzym, tea tree and 183 more...
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The Whole Ball of Wax
Feel free to wax poetic.
the whole ball of..., wax poetic, wax, beeswax, ambergris, cedar waxwing, sealing wax, earwax, paraffin, bougie, epicuticular wax, waxing gibbous moon and 192 more...
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The Bindery
A list of bookbinding terms and phrases, for assembling new or repairing/reassembling old books.
perfect binding, animal glue, spine, textblock, polyvinyl acetate, double-fan adhesi..., board, backing, rounding, bone, book cloth, pasteboard and 270 more...
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Gesundheit
Words that sound like sneezes
zucchini, zoology, wysiwyg, woodchuck, withhold, wichita, vacuum, twelfth, syzygy, synchronous, swatch, supersede and 120 more...
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The Chandlery
Candles, candle-making; photometry, and a couple of oily fish used as light sources.
candle, chandlery, chandry, candle-carriage, candela, candle-power, egg-candling, wax, tallow, paraffin, taper, cerge and 135 more...
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Noodle, Nugget, Butter, Soft, Snug, Feather, Socks, Knit, Mug, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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The Bee List
Some words pilfered shamelessly from ruzuzu's https://www.wordnik.com/lists/bees.
spelling bee, beehive, bee-stung, beeswax, none of your beeswax, bee’s knees, bee in one's bonnet, beeline, beekeeper, beekeeping, bee-hunter, honeybee and 36 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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dickcherry's drivel
the words i'm thinking with
doing, boing, going, tincture, pingback, womenswear, jounce, wrack, a, ish, beeswax, thither and 97 more...
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wordsmith III: revenge of wordie
sedimentary, igneous, segment, surfeit, unctuous, magma, garble, ransack, concubine, coincide, metamorphic, clastic and 208 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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