wex

English

Verb

1. Obsolete form of wax.
   • John Dryden

     The sun but seem'd the lab'rer of their year;
     Each wexing moon supply'd her wat'ry store.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wex”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• EXW

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• wax

Etymology

From Old English weax.

Noun

wex (uncountable)

1. wax

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Descendants

• English: wax
• Scots: wax