What is the meaning of PYX. Phrases containing PYX
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n.
The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
n. & v.
See Pyx.
n.
A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.
n.
Same as Pyxis.
pl.
of Pyxidium
n.
The theca of mosses.
n.
The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.
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.
n.
A box; a pyx.
n.
A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.
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.
v. t.
To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.
n.
The acetabulum. See Acetabulum, 2. Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k/) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from the Ph/nician, the ultimate origin being Egyptian.
n.
The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.
n.
The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.
n.
Same as Pixy.
n.
A pyxidium.
a.
Having a pyxidium.
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Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.
n.
A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.
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