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noun

Pyx n. (Written also pix)

(R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.

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.

(Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.

(Anat.) Same as Pyxis.

Pyx cloth (R. C. Ch.), 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.

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Etymology of 'Pyx'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pyx" Quotes from Famous Books

... unscientific, informal spirit in which the Dayanim, those cadis of the East End, administered justice. The Takif, or man of substance, was as accustomed to the palm of the mendicant outside the Great Synagogue as to the rattling pyx within. They lived in Bury Street, and Prescott Street, and Finsbury—these aristocrats of the Ghetto—in mansions that are now but congeries of "apartments." Few relations had they with Belgravia, but many with Petticoat ...

— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

Words linked to "Pyx" : pix chest, chest, pix, receptacle