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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.

(Bot.)

An American climbing shrub (

Celastrus scandens

). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.

waxwork ‎(plural waxworks)

A figure made of wax, especially an effigy of a famous person.
- 1885, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado:
  The amateur tenor, whose vocal villainies / All desire to shirk, / Shall during off-hours, / Exhibit his powers / To Madame Tussaud's waxwork.

a wax figure, an effigy of a famous person