bees-wax

Europe had bees-wax tempered with Venice turpentine and coloured with cinnabar or similar material.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

There will be no iTunes release, CD single, 45 or bees-wax cylinder of "All Along the Watchtower" before the soundtrack album in August.

Bear Along the Watchtower 2007

Bees scramble up the stalks of flowers and rapidly gather the bees-wax with their front legs; the front legs wipe it off on to the middle legs, and these pass it on to the hollow curves of the hind-legs; when thus laden, they fly away home, and one may see plainly that their load is a heavy one.

The History of Animals 2002

The wax-tree produces wax, which being much drier than bees-wax, may bear mixture, which will not hinder its lasting longer than bees-wax.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

-- Take one part of gum camphor, two parts yellow bees-wax, three parts clean lard; let all melt slowly, in any vessel

Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

Such are the inhabitants of the hive; the chief products of which are bees-wax and honey.

The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering William Martin

There are several varieties of this substance, but bees-wax is a secretion of that insect from its ventral scales.

A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management of Bees Throughout the Year William Augustus Munn

The following is a good receipe for making grafting-wax: One and a half pound of bees-wax, six pounds of resin, and one and a half pound rough beef tallow; put all into a pot, and boil one half hour, keeping it stirred; pour it out into

Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden James Sheehan

For example, mastic and other resinous varnishes impart this texture to oils which have been rendered drying by the acetate, or sugar of lead: -- simple water, also albumen, and animal jelly made of glue and isinglass, give the same quality to oils and colours; and bees-wax has a similar effect in pure oils.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

Through one of the holes drop in about half a tea-spoonful of shot and the same quantity of pellets of bees-wax or tallow.

Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various