单词 | waxed |
释义 | waxedadj. a. 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > waxy materials > [adjective] > coated with wax waxeda1380 ceredc1386 waxena1593 a1380 St. Augustine 387 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 68 In a waxed table He wrot. 1586 G. Whitney Choice of Emblemes 28 His [Icarus's] waxed winges, the sonne did make so softe, They melted straighte. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 15/1 This suture is done with a waxed threde. 1633 J. Law in Scotsman (1907) 7 Sept. [He paid 16 shillings] for soleing walxt boots. 1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 13 You must work al these grounds upon a waxed silk. ?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 46 in School of Arts (ed. 2) When you take off the paper you will find every line which you drew with the black lead pencil upon the waxed plate. 1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 347 The piercer is withdrawn, and a double waxed thread passed through its canula. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xx. 494 Waxed floor, very slippery. 1883 D. C. Murray Hearts xxi Tapping his visitor's hand with the waxed end of his long pipe. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 2/2 A waxed moustache. b. Leather Manufacturing. Of a skin: Dressed on the flesh side with a mixture of lamp-black and oil. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > dressed or softened brain-dressed1851 waxed1852 fat-liquored1903 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 138/1 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. 1883 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Useful Animals Waxed Fleshes, a trade name for certain leathers, prepared of the inner side of a split skins. 1885 A. Watt Art of Leather Manuf. 341 Waxed Leather. 1885 A. Watt Art of Leather Manuf. 350 Waxed Calf-skins. c. Photography. Of paper, a paper negative: Saturated with wax. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > treatment of plates, films, or paper > [adjective] mercurialized1648 ferro-prussiate1815 sensitive1839 albumen1850 sensitized1851 bromized1853 waxed1853 salted1855 collodionized1859 collodioned1870 colour-sensitive1879 colour-sensitized1888 unsensitized1889 fumed1890 silvered1890 unfumed1891 orthochromatized1902 backed1906 hypersensitized1914 hypersensitive1937 1853 Le Gray's Waxed Paper Process 8 Method of rendering the iodised waxed paper sensitive. 1853 Le Gray's Waxed Paper Process 16 Renovating the transparency of the waxed negative. 1857 W. 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 n. = wax-end n. at wax n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > materials > thread lingelc1440 a shoemaker's end1598 taching end1611 rosin-enda1826 wax-end1825 waxed-end1914 1914 Daily News 30 June 4 It is entirely due to the awl and the waxed-end. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1380 |
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