waxen

adjective6

1. •
   Made of or covered with wax.

   • She is fair; and so is Julia that I love— That I did love, for now my love is thaw’d; Which, like a waxen image, ’gainst a fire, Bears no impression of the thing it was. — 1590
2. •
   Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.

   • It was hard to imagine that the broken thing had once been new; that those withered, waxen cheeks had been fresh and tinted. That her eyes had long ago glinted with laughter. — 1950
3. •
   Of or pertaining to wax.
4. •
   Easily molded, influenced, or bent; yielding, impressible.

   • The traveller hears me now and then, ⁠And sometimes harshly will he speak: ⁠‘This fellow would make weakness weak, And melt the waxen hearts of men.’ — 1850
5. •
   (rare) Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
6. •
   (dialect, UK) Grown.