1983, Youlan Feng, ‎Derk Bodde, A History of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 2, p. 427:The wanings and waxings (of the sun and moon) occur according to the (twelve) pitch-pipes.
2006, Mary Lou Lyon, Early Cupertino, p. 81:The building interior was Gothic and finished by multiple waxings of the commercial coast woods, redwood, sugar pine, white pine, and Douglas fir.
2009, Fritz Allhoff, Wine and Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking, p. 128:Are these metaphorical descriptions just the subjective waxings of the critic or are they aesthetic properties really (but metaphorically) true of the wine?
(countable) A cosmeticprocedure in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of wax.
(countable) A recording intended for a phonograph. from 1940s
