Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Old preterit and past participle of wax.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. of
wax .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete Past participle of
wax
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Examples
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Anglo-Saxon proverb, _Nis [14] no wurt woxen on woode ne on felde, per enure mage be lif uphelden_.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Of th'inward bale of my loue pined hart: and sithens haue with sighes and sorrowes fed, till greater then my wombe thou woxen art.
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You fought as how they’d never woxen up, did you, crucket?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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