wox

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A form of wax — Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

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Meanings

verb
  1. obsoletepastsimple past of wax (“to become”)

    VVhereof when as the Gyant was aware, / He wox right blyth, as he had got thereby, / And laught ſo loud, that all his teeth wide bare [...]

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 325
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