Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A resinous preparation of shellac and turpentine that is soft and fluid when heated but solidifies upon cooling, used to seal letters, batteries, or jars.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Shellac and rosin melted with turpentine, colored with suitable coloring matters, usually vermilion, and run into molds: used for making seals.
- Resembling red sealing-wax: specifically said of the peculiar tips of the feathers of the waxwings. See waxwing, Ampelis.
Wiktionary
- n. Wax formerly melted onto a letter to seal it; the picture of the sender's seal was often pressed into the wax as evidence that the letter had not been opened.
GNU Webster's 1913
- A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters
Examples
“His fingers were trembling when he broke the half-coin from its restraining sealing wax in Dirk Struan's Bible and cleaned it.”
“Affixed to the thick flyleaf with old sealing wax were halves of two old Chinese bronze coins, crudely broken.”
“Clearly, once upon a time, there had been four such half-coins for there was still the imprint of the missing two and the remains of the same red sealing wax attached to the ancient paper.”
“A few days ago, someone had described in the "Children's Hour" how to make a reed-pipe out of a jointed wheat-stalk, or, failing that, out of a drinking straw with a blob of sealing wax at one end.”
“He folded the sheet of stationery, dribbled sealing wax along its seam, and pressed his ducal seal into the warm wax.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sealing wax’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 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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To Whom It May Concern
Lessons from the art of letter writing.
To Whom It May Co..., Dear Sir or Madam, complimentary close, sincerely, valediction, salutation, yours truly, yours sincerely, sincerely yours, very truly yours, I am, Sir, your m..., yours faithfully and 24 more...
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Arcadia, a play by Tom Stoppard
theodolite, Arcadia, carnal embrace, QED, sin of Onan, Fermat's last the..., landskip, bootboy, yesterday's upsta..., whole numbers, rice pudding, cabbages and 86 more...
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TECH - food processing
absorbent material, active agent, additive, animal fat, animal product, antibacterial, antifungal, bleacher, canned goods, cereal, coagulant, coffee substitute and 81 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (S)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
sabian symbols, saffron, sagacious, sage, salamander, sally lunn, salmon, salsify, salt water taffy, samhain, sand dollar, sandalwood and 270 more...
Tweets
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seanahan Hmm, so we weren't singing about Puff and ceiling wax? Jan 26, 2008
uselessness It's a good thing to talk about, especially with shoes, ships, cabbages, and kings. Jan 25, 2008
treeseed Sealing wax was used to seal "letters close" and later (from about the 16th century) envelopes. It was also used to take the impression of seals on important documents, or to create a hermetic seal on containers. Now mainly used for decorative purposes, it was formerly used to ensure that the contents of the envelope were secure.
_Wikipedia Jan 25, 2008