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Webster 1913 Edition


Waxwork

Wax′workˊ

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Noun.
1.
Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
2.
(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.