Associations to the word «Pyx»
Noun
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Wiktionary
PYX, noun. The small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist.
PYX, noun. 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.
PYX, noun. (nautical) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.
PYX, noun. (anatomy) pyxis
Dictionary definition
PYX, noun. A chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay.
PYX, noun. Any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.