Modifies a noun

• image: They had all died after the women had made waxen images of their victims which they had pierced with hawthorns.

• taper: A wood fire burned upon the hearth, and two waxen tapers flung their light on a mirror, set in richly chased silver.

• bloom: And because his face was not pale, but had that waxen bloom still upon it that belongs to a barber's dummy.