Pyx (?), )pyxis a box, Gr. a box, especially of boxwood, fr. 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.d>, 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.
© Webster 1913.
Pyx, v. t.
To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.
[Eng.]
Mushet.
© Webster 1913.