woxen
English
Verb
woxen
- (obsolete) past participle of wax
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale, Part II.
- To every wight she woxen is so deere
- And worshipful, that folk ther she was bore
- And from hir birthe knewe hir yeer by yeere,
- Unnethe trowed they, - but dorste han swore -
- That she to Janicle, of which I spak bifore,
- She doghter nere, for as by conjecture,
- Hem thoughte she was another creature.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale, Part II.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for woxen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)