waxen Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective made of or covered with wax
    waxy.
    • waxen candles
    • careful, the floor is waxy
  2. adjective satellite having the paleness of wax
    waxy; waxlike.
    • the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker
    • the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him
    • a thin face with a waxy paleness

WordNet

Wax"en adjective
Definitions
  1. Made of wax. "The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells." Milton.
  2. Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet.
  3. Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding.
    Men have marble, women waxen, minds. Shak.

Webster 1913