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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Waxwork

· Wax·work · IPA
01 n. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
  1. 1.
    Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
  2. 2.
    An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.(Bot.)