pyx : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pyx	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for pyx
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pyx n a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay Synonym(s): pyx, pix, pyx chest, pix chest any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept Synonym(s): pyx, pix
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.