Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pix"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pix \Pix\, n. & v.
See {Pyx}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pyx \Pyx\, n. [L. pyxis a box, Gr. pyxi`s a box, especially of
boxwood, fr. py`xos the box tree or boxwood. See {Box} a
receptacle.] [Written also {pix}.]
1. (R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which
the host is reserved.
2. A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for
certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and
fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint.
--Mushet.
3. (Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the
binnacle. --Weale.
4. (Anat.) Same as {Pyxis}.
{Pyx cloth} (R. C. Ch.), a veil of silk or lace covering the
pyx.
{Trial of the pyx}, the annual testing, in the English mint,
of the standard of gold and silver coins. --Encyc. Brit.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pix
n 1: a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
[syn: {pyx}, {pyx chest}, {pix chest}]
2: any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept
[syn: {pyx}]
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