Pix

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pix \Pix\, n. & v.
     See {Pyx}.
     [1913 Webster] Pixy

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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.
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     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.
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     3. (Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the
        binnacle. --Weale.
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     4. (Anat.) Same as {Pyxis}.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]