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Pandora :: Pandora (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it..

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler..

Axle Guard :: Axle guard () The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England..

Keep :: Keep (n.) A cap for retaining anything, as a journal box, in place..

Canister :: Canister (n.) A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc..

Manger :: Manger (n.) A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

Spit-venom :: Spittoon (n.) A spitbox; a cuspidor.

Boxes :: Boxes (pl. ) of Bo.

Kit :: Kit (m.) A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like..

Phylactery :: Phylactery (n.) A small square box, made either of parchment or of black calfskin, containing slips of parchment or vellum on which are written the scriptural passages Exodus xiii. 2-10, and 11-17, Deut. vi. 4-9, 13-22. They are worn by Jews on the head and left arm, on week-day mornings, during the time of prayer..

Box :: Box (n.) An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing..

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.

Case :: Case (n.) A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments..

Hatbox :: Hatbox (n.) A box for a hat.

Coom :: Coom (n.) Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven..

Camera Obscura :: Camera obscura () An apparatus in which the image of an external object or objects is, by means of lenses, thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface placed at the back of an extensible darkened box or chamber variously modified; -- commonly called simply the camera..

Nab :: Nab (n.) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot..

Boxwood :: Boxwood (n.) The wood of the box (Buxus).

Stich :: Sticcado (n.) An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks..

Lining :: Lining (n.) That which covers the inner surface of anything, as of a garment or a box; also, the contents of anything..

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