To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
To deprive of.
To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
To masturbate.
To waste away.
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
To reduce the force of something; to abate.
To cut off, remove, take away.
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
Strife; contention.
An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
A vat which contains this liquid.
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 defeat utterly.
To move from low tide to high tide.
To kill, especially to murder a person.
To grow.
To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
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.