To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
To take in the slack of (a rope).
To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
To become shorter.
To make shorter; to abbreviate.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
To defeat utterly.
To move from low tide to high tide.
To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
To kill, especially to murder a person.
To grow.
To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
Made of wax.
Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
Beeswax.
The process of growing.
Earwax.
A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
The phonograph record format for music.