beeswax
- to rub or treat with beeswax.
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problem, issue, interest, duty, function, task, affair, happening, point, assignment, question, topic, matter, responsibility, lookout, palaver, subject, beeswax, hanky-panky, goings-onExamples from the Web for beeswax
Contemporary Examples of beeswax
Odysseus ordered his men to stuff their ears with beeswax as they rowed by.
War Nostalgia Is Leading Veterans to Places Like Syria. One Went Missing There.Elliot Ackerman
May 3, 2014
They introduced the lip balm, a combination of beeswax and sweet almond oil, in 1991.
Burt’s Bees Co-Founder Burt Shavitz on the Doc ‘Burt’s Buzz,’ and Losing MillionsMarlow Stern
September 11, 2013
You now really get the notion that what other people think of you is none of your beeswax.
Nicole Ankowski just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal.
(CBC) Nicole Ankowski just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal.
Historical Examples of beeswax
Besides skins, honey, and beeswax, eggs and poultry were always salable.
Plantation SketchesMargaret Devereux
First melt the beeswax and rosin, being careful not to have the fire too hot.
Walnut Growing in OregonVarious
This wax is made of equal parts of tallow, beeswax, and linseed oil.
Agriculture for BeginnersCharles William Burkett
She has beeswax and honey, and most valuable skins and furs.
When the paper was removed the beeswax retained the marks of the lead pencil.
The Building of a BookVarious
beeswax
- a yellowish or dark brown wax secreted by honeybees for constructing honeycombs
- this wax after refining, purifying, etc, used in polishes, ointments, and for modelling
- (tr) to polish with such wax