waxen

adj 1: made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the

floor is waxy" [syn: {waxy}]

2: having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same

awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his

waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy

paleness" [syn: {waxlike}, {waxy}]

VAXen

/vak'sn/ (From "oxen", perhaps influenced by "vixen") The

plural canonically used among hackers for the {DEC} {VAX}

computers. "Our installation has four PDP-10s and twenty

vaxen."

See {boxen}.

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(1995-02-20)