NOSE OF WAX

Definition: NOSE OF WAX

NOSE OF WAX

1. Fig., a person who is pliant and easily influenced. ``A nose of wax to be turned every way.'' --Massinger Nose piece , the nozzle of a pipe, hose, bellows, etc.; the end piece of a microscope body, to which an objective is attached.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definitions: NOSE OF WAX

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Nose of Wax (A). Mutable and accommodating (faith). A waxen nose may be twisted any way. "Sed addunt etiam simile quoddam non aptissimum; Eas esse quoddammodo nasum cereum, posse fingi, flectique in omnes modos, et omnium institutio inservire."- Juelli Apologia, Ecc. Angl., sec. 6. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: NOSE OF WAX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-n-o-o-s-w-x"
	-3 letters: aswoon, axones, weason.
	-4 letters: aeons, axone, axons, enows, exons, fanes, fanos, fawns, faxes, foxes, noose, owsen, sewan, swoon, wanes, waxen, waxes, weans, woofs.
	-5 letters: aeon, anes, anew, awes, awns, axes, axon, enow, eons, exon, fane, fano, fans, fawn, fens, foes, fons, naos, news, noes, nose, nows, oafs, ones, owes, owns, owse, oxen, oxes.
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