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waxed, ppl. a.|wækst|
[f. wax v.2 + -ed1.]
In the senses of the verb; esp., coated with a layer of wax; polished or stiffened with wax; dressed or saturated with wax, e.g. for water-proofing.
a1380St. Augustine 387 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 68 In a waxed table He wrot. 1586Whitney Choice Emblems 28 His [Icarus's] waxed winges, the sonne did make so softe, They melted straighte. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 15/1 This suture is done with a waxed threde. 1633J. Law in Scotsman (1907) 7 Sept., [He paid 16 shillings] for soleing walxt boots. 1651T. Barker Art of Angling (1653) 13 You must work al these grounds upon a waxed silk. c1790J. Imison Sch. Arts II. 46 When you take off the paper you will find every line which you drew with the black lead pencil upon the waxed plate. 1846F. Brittan Oper. Surg. 347 The piercer is withdrawn, and a double waxed thread passed through its canula. 1857Dickens Dorrit ii. xx, Waxed floor very slippery. 1883D. C. Murray Hearts xxi, Tapping his visitor's hand with the waxed end of his long pipe. 1900Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 2/2 A waxed moustache.
b. Leather-manuf. Of a skin: Dressed on the flesh side with a mixture of lamp-black and oil.
1851–3C. Tomlinson's Cycl. Useful Arts (1866) II. 36/1 The skin of leather now curried is called black on the flesh, or waxed, in contradistinction to leather which is curried on the hair or grain side. 1883Simmonds Dict. Useful Anim., Waxed Fleshes, a trade name for certain leathers, prepared of the inner side of a split skins. 1885A. Watt Leather Manuf. 341 Waxed Leather. Ibid. 350 Waxed Calf-skins.
c. Photogr. Of paper, a paper negative: Saturated with wax.
1853LeGray's Waxed Paper Process 8 Method of rendering the iodised waxed paper sensitive. Ibid. 16 Renovating the transparency of the waxed negative. 1857W. Crookes Hand Bk. Waxed Paper Process in Photogr. 25 When this has taken place the waxed sheets must be separated one from the other.
d. waxed-end = wax-end (wax n.1 13).
1914Daily News 30 June 4 It is entirely due to the awl and the waxed-end. |