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n. Ecclesiastical A container in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept.

n. Ecclesiastical A container in which the Eucharist is carried to the sick.

n. A chest in a mint in which specimen coins are placed to await assay.

n. the small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist

n. The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.

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. The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.

n. Same as Pyxis.

v. To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.

n. In the Roman Catholic Church, the vase or vessel in which the reserved eucharist is kept.

n. A box or chest in which specimen coins are deposited at the British mint.

n. Nautical, the metallic box in which the nautical compass-card is suspended.

n. In anatomy, the acetabulum of the hip-bone; the cotyloid cavity; the pyxis.

To test by weight and assay, as the coins deposited in the pyx at the British mint. See trial of the pyx, above.

n. any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept

n. a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay

"In later times however it has come about that the term pyx is limited in ordinary usage to that smaller vessel of gold, or silver-gilt, in which the Eucharist is commonly carried to the sick."

receptacle    chest   

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Pyxis    pyxis   

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