Usually means: Substance melted to secure envelopes.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word sealing wax:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. sealing wax: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sealing wax: Merriam-Webster
  3. sealing wax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sealing wax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sealing wax: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sealing wax: Vocabulary.com
  7. sealing-wax, sealing wax: Wordnik
  8. sealing wax: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sealing-wax, sealing wax: Wiktionary
  10. sealing wax: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sealing wax: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sealing wax: Dictionary.com
  13. Sealing wax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sealing wax: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sealing wax: Rhymezone
  16. Sealing wax: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. sealing-wax: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. sealing wax: FreeDictionary.org
  19. sealing wax: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. sealing wax: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sealing wax: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sealing wax: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (sealing wax)

noun:  Wax formerly melted onto a letter to seal it; the picture of the sender's seal was often pressed into the wax as evidence that the letter had not been opened.

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