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Sealing wax   /sˈilɪŋ wæks/   Listen
Sealing wax

noun
1.
Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters.  Synonym: seal.






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"Sealing wax" Quotes from Famous Books



... week or two; that is, the new vessels, which constitute inflammation in these inirritable constitutions, are absorbed by the activity of the absorbents induced by the stimulus of the electric aura. For this operation the easiest method is to fix a pointed wire to a stick of sealing wax, or to an insulating handle of glass, one end of this wire communicates with the prime conductor, and the point is approached near the inflamed eye ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... you do so. If it is not so, let your hammer down, and give a smart tap to the under side of the breech, holding it uppermost, and you will never need a picker; or at least almost never. Remember, too, that the best picker in the world is a strong needle headed with sealing wax. And now that you have finished loading, and I lecturing, just jump over the fence to your right; and that footpath will bring us to the stepping-stones across the Ramapo. By Jove, but we shall have ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)

... notches, and its spit. How do you like its? will you its are fine or broad? I won't me also a wafer or some sealing wax and a seal. In this drawer, there is all that, falding stick, rule, scraper, saud, etc. There is the postman I go to put ...
— English as she is spoke - or, A jest in sober earnest • Jose da Fonseca

... put both her hands in and brought up a quantity of old papers mixed with bits of string, little ends of sealing wax and many other things she would have liked to stop and examine if Twaddles had not ...
— Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island • Mabel C. Hawley

... her despatch case at school—a small matter, indeed, but fraught with big consequences. As she wanted some convenient safe spot in which to deposit note paper, old letters, sealing wax, stamps, and other such treasures, Cousin Clare allowed her to take possession of a writing-desk which stood on the study table. It had belonged to old Mr. Ingleton, and he had indeed used it till the day before his death, but it had been emptied of its contents by Mr. Bowden, and ...
— The Princess of the School • Angela Brazil

... souvenir toilet set was encased in cotton, packed in the smallest compass, stowed in a wooden box, which was then sewed up in a gunny sacking. This in turn was wrapped in colored paper, tied with bows of pink ribbon and sealed with blue sealing wax stamped with the crest of the school—VIRTUS SEMPER VIRIDIS. The whole was placed on a table at the legs of which were ...
— The Varmint • Owen Johnson



Words linked to "Sealing wax" :   holdfast, fixing, seal, lac, fastening, fastener



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