waxen

pa. p.of wax. grown变成。
△2H.VI.3.2.76:“What? Art thou,like the adder,waxen deaf?”怎么？难道你像毒蛇一样，变聋了吗？

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waxen

vi. grow,increase (with archaic plural endingin-“en”)发展，增加，增多。
△Mid.2.1.56:“And waxenin their mirth. and neeze,and swear”，（他们）越想越好笑，又是打喷嚏，又是赌咒。

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waxen

a. i.e. soft,impressionable蜡一般的，软的，容易打上印记的。
△Tw.2.2. 30 (29): “How easy is it for theproper-false/In women's waxen hearts to set theirforms!”i.e. to stamp their images in the soft heartsof women. (The metaphor is from sealing or pressinga figure in wax.)漂亮的骗子要想在女人们蜡一般柔弱的心上留下他们的印象，那是多么容易呀！
waxen epitaph: epitaph cut on wax (most perishablememorial); paper epitaph affixed to the hearse or grave with wax刻在蜡上的墓志铭（极容易消失的纪念物）,（又解）用蜡粘在灵车或坟墓上的纸墓铭。
△H.V.1.2.231:“orelse our grave./Like Turkish mute,shall have atongueless mouth,/Not worshipped with a waxen ep-itaph.”要不然就让我的坟墓像是土耳其的哑巴奴隶，只有一张没有舌头的嘴，连蜡粘的一纸铭文都没有。