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  3  definitions  found 
 
  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  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pyx  \Pyx\,  v.  t. 
  To  test  as  to  weight  and  fineness,  as  the  coins  deposited  in 
  the  pyx.  [Eng.]  --Mushet. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pyx 
  n  1:  a  chest  in  which  coins  from  the  mint  are  held  to  await  assay 
  [syn:  {pix},  {pyx  chest},  {pix  chest}] 
  2:  any  receptacle  in  which  wafers  for  the  Eucharist  are  kept 
  [syn:  {pix}]




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