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Plait :: Plait (n.) A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait..

Mark :: Mark (v. t.) To put a mark upon; to affix a significant mark to; to make recognizable by a mark; as, to mark a box or bale of merchandise; to mark clothing..

Dicarbonic :: Dicarbonic (a.) Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid..

Cooter :: Cooter (n.) The box tortoise.

Cuff :: Cuff (v. i.) To fight; to scuffle; to box.

Box :: Box (n.) A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box..

Carton :: Carton (n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box..

Boxing :: Boxing (n.) Material used in making boxes or casings.

Close-stool :: Close-stool (n.) A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover..

Gusset :: Gusset (n.) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler..

Follower :: Follower (n.) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.

Bushel :: Bushel (n.) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.

Buxeous :: Buxeous (a.) Belonging to the box tree.

Ballotin :: Ballotin (n.) An officer who has charge of a ballot box.

Carboxyl :: Carboxyl (n.) The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl..

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..

Packing :: Packing (n.) The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides..

Dredger :: Dredger (n.) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box..

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

Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..

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