Word Meanings - WAXWORKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork. 2. A bee that makes or produces wax.

WORKSHOP
A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
WAXWORKS
An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition.
WORKSHIP
Workmanship.
WAXWORK
An American climbing shrub . It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds. (more info) 1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in
WAXWORKER
1. One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork. 2. A bee that makes or produces wax.
COPPER WORKS
A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.
DEADWORKS
The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.
COAL WORKS
A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.
IRON WORKS
. See under Iron, a.