waxen : Idioms & Phrases

Index

Waxen chatterer

  • (Zoöl.), the Bohemian chatterer.
Webster 1913

woad-waxen

Woad"-wax`en noun
Etymology
Cf. Wood-wax.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen.
Webster 1913