<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Also called beeswax.</li><li>a solid, yellowish, nonglycerine substance allied to fats and oils, secreted by bees, plastic when warm and melting at about 145°F, variously employed in making candles, models, casts, ointments, etc., and used by bees in constructing their honeycomb.</li><li>any of various similar substances, as spermaceti or the secretions of certain insects and plants.</li><li>Compare vegetable wax, wax insect.</li><li>any of a group of substances composed of hydrocarbons, alcohols, fatty acids, and esters that are solid at ordinary temperatures.</li><li>earwax; cerumen.</li><li>a resinous substance used by shoemakers for rubbing thread.</li><li>sealing wax.</li><li>a person or object suggesting wax, as in manageability or malleability: I am helpless wax in your hands.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to rub, smear, stiffen, polish, etc., with wax: to wax the floor.</li><li>to fill the crevices of (ornamental marble) with colored material.</li><li>Informal. to make a phonograph recording of.</li><li>Slang. to defeat decisively; drub: We waxed the competition.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>pertaining to, made of, or resembling wax: a wax candle; a wax doll.</li></ul>