a. [f. L. cēre-us waxen + -OUS.] Of the nature of wax, waxen, waxy.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 135. That cereous substance Propolis.
1654. Gayton, Festiv. Notes, II. v. 52. What is worth his observation, goes into his cereous tables.
1679. Sir T. Browne, Wks. (1852), III. 459. The bones of a dead body cereous or somewhat soft like wax.
1803–4. Syd. Smith, in Athenæum (1884), 18 Oct., 490/3. The room … is lighted up … and in this cereous galaxy, etc.
