wax down

verb7

1. •
   To rub or polish with wax to create a slick, shiny and/or waterproof coating; to wax.

   • We're waxin' down our surfboards / We can't wait for June — 1963
2. •
   To stiffen by coating or permeating with wax.

   • In picking up the loops, the weaver probably used some kind of bodkin, or possibly she knew how to wax down the ends of her threads to a fine point, — 1925
3. •
   To coat (hair) with an oily or waxy substance in order to hold it in place.

   • She divided the rest of the hair into 4 equal parts, twisted each part and tied it into 3 knots. Those she waxed down to my skull with 4 pins to the knot . — 1900
4. •
   To generate a layer of wax that completely covers.

   • By the description of his cover for the bees to wax down, it was not properly braced, as the dovetailed end is made by different manufacturers. — 1892
5. •
   To seal over with wax, in order to make airtight and watertight.

   • Solid caustic potash must always be kept in well-stoppered bottles, which when not in use may be waxed down. — 1892
6. •
   To paste into place using wax.

   • Then muslin was waxed down onto the surface, to bind it, and the panel was lifted in one piece. — 1969
7. •
   To taper off; to gradually quiet or diminish.

   • See how sin, even from Adam to Cain, had grown up to murder and defiance of God! See how it then waxed down to the death of all flesh in the judgment of the flood! — 1859