Beeswax Definition

bēzwăks
noun
The yellow to grayish-brown wax secreted by the honeybee for constructing honeycombs.
American Heritage
A tallowlike substance that honeybees secrete and use for building their honeycomb: it is used in candles, polishes, etc.
Webster's New World
Commercial wax obtained by processing and purifying the crude wax of the honeybee and used in making candles, crayons, and polishes.
American Heritage
A matter of concern or business that pertains to someone.
It's none of your beeswax where I'm going tonight.
American Heritage

A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods.

Wiktionary
verb

To polish (something) with beeswax.

Wiktionary

Origin of Beeswax

  • Sense 3, jocular alteration of business

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From bees + 's + wax

    From Wiktionary

Beeswax Sentence Examples

  • For beeswax London is one of the chief marts of the world.

  • Mules, sheep and cattle' are bred, and beeswax is produced in large quantities.

  • To-day Labuan chiefly exists as a trading depot for the natives of the neighbouring coast of Borneo, who sell their produce - beeswax, edible birds-nests, camphor, gutta, trepang, &c., - to Chinese shopkeepers, who resell it in Singapore.

  • They differ from liturgical lights in that, whereas these must be tapers of pure beeswax or lamps fed with pure olive oil (except by special dispensation under certain circumstances), those used merely to add splendour to the celebration may be of any material; the only exception being, that in the decoration of the altar gas-lights are forbidden.

  • The common material for re ceiving the impressions from the matrices was beeswax, generally strengthened and hardened by admixture with other substances, such as resin, pitch and even hemp and hair.

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