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Pyxis :: Pyxis (n.) The acetabulum. See Acetabulum, 2.

Pyx :: Pyx (n.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.

Pix :: Pix (n. & v.) See Pyx.

Pyx :: Pyx (n.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved..

Pyxidate :: Pyxidate (a.) Having a pyxidium.

Pyxidium :: Pyxidium (n.) The theca of mosses.

Pyxis :: Pyxis (n.) A pyxidium.

Ampyx :: Ampyx (n.) A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair..

Pyx :: Pyx (n.) Same as Pyxis.

Pyxle :: Pyxle (n.) Same as Pixy.

Pixie :: Pixie (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring..

Pyxidia :: Pyxidia (pl. ) of Pyxidiu.

Pyx :: Pyx (n.) 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.

Scyphus :: Scyphus (n.) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen..

Pyx :: Pyx (v. t.) To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx..

Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable..

Monstrance :: Monstrance (n.) A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view..

Pyxis :: Pyxis (n.) A box; a pyx.

Circumscissile :: Circumscissile (a.) Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

Ciborium :: Ciborium (n.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.

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