waxing

Verb

Present participle of wax.

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural waxings)

The action of the verb to wax.
(countable) A cosmetic procedure in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of wax.
(countable) A recording intended for a phonograph. [from 1940s]

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She trailed, even more perplexed when the janitor waxing the floor called out a cheerful, "Hey, Toby!"
In the 12th century the Matiere de France was waning, the Matiere de Bretagne waxing in popularity, and public opinion demanded that the central figure of the younger cycle (for whatever the date of the subject matter, as a literary cycle the Arthurian is the younger) should not be inferior in dignity and importance to that of the earlier.
Solar and lunar myths usually account for the observed phenomena of eclipse, waning and waxing, sunset, spots on the moon, and so forth by various mythical adventures of the animated heavenly beings.
In the Brahmana period they were distinguished as " deva " and " yama," the fourteen lucky asterisms being probably associated with the waxing, the fourteen unlucky with the waning moon.'
Crescens, growing), originally the waxing moon, hence a name applied to the shape of the moon in its first quarter.

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