(waks) noun
1. A yellow fatty solid excreted from the abdominal rings of bees and used by them to build honeycombs; beeswax. It has a honeylike odor and a balsamic taste; becomes plastic with the heat of the hand; is insoluble in water, but is almost completely dissolved by boiling alcohol.
2. Any of a class of plant and animal substances consisting of the esters of fatty acids and alcohols other than glycerol, and including spermaceti and carnauba wax; specifically, a substance derived from the fruit of the wax myrtle or bayberry.
3. A solid mineral substance resembling wax, as ozocerite or paraffin.
4. A substance used for joining surfaces, sealing documents, etc.; sealing wax.
5. A mixture of pitch and tallow or some resinous composition used by shoemakers to wax their thread.
6. Earwax; cerumen.
7. U.S. The sap of the sugar maple after being boiled down and cooled.
8. A substance resembling beeswax secreted by certain scale insects.
—v.t. To coat or treat with wax.
—adjective Made of or pertaining to wax. [OE weax]

(waks) v.i. waxed, waxed (Poetic wax·en), wax·ing
1. To become larger gradually; increase in size or numbers; grow: said specifically of the moon as it approaches fullness: opposed to wane.
2. To become as specified: to wax angry. [OE weaxan grow]

(waks) v.t. Colloq.
To record phonographically: to wax a folk song. [<WAX¹; so called because wax was formerly used in making phonograph records]

(waks) noun Colloq.
A tantrum; fit of bad temper. [? <phrase wax angry]