(fem.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.

(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. t.) To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.

(n.) A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.

(n.) A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.

(n.) The quantity that a box contain.

(n.) A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.

(n.) A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.

(n.) A small country house.

(n.) A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.

(n.) An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.

(n.) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

(n.) The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

(n.) A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.

(n.) The square in which the pitcher stands.

(n.) A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

(v. t.) To inclose in a box.

(v. t.) To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.

(v. t.) To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.

(n.) A blow on the head or ear with the hand.

(v. i.) To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.

(v. t.) To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.

(v. t.) To boxhaul.

(n.) A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

(n.) A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.

(n.) The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.

(v. i.) To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.

(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.

(n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.

(n.) Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.

(n.) Cerumen, or earwax.

(n.) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.

(n.) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.

(n.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.

(n.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.

(n.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.

(n.) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.

(v. t.) To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

(a.) One more than five; twice three; as, six yards.

(n.) The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI.

(n.) A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.

(n.) The European dragonet.

(n.) The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.

(n.) A sly, cunning fellow.

(n.) Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.

(n.) A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.

(n.) A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies.

(n.) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.

(n.) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.

(n.) To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

(v. i.) To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.

(v. i.) To hiccough.

(v. i.) A hiccough.

(n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.

(n.) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.

(n.) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.

(n.) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.

(n.) A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

(n.) A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.

(n.) Charge; censure.

(n.) A lesson to be learned; a task.

(n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.

(n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.

(n.) To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.

(a.) Fixed; solidified.

(v. t.) To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.

(v. t.) To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.

(v. t.) To transfix; to pierce.

(v. t.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.

(v. t.) To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.

(v. t.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

(v. i.) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

(v. i.) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

(n.) A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.

(n.) fettling.

(v. i.) See Yex.

(n.) A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.

(v. t.) To hock; to hamstring. See Hock.

(n.) A weed; a kecksy.

(n.) A dry husk or covering.

(v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

(n.) Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.

(v. t.) To put out of joint; to luxate.

(n.) Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants.

(n.) A voice.

(v. t.) To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.

(v. t.) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.

(v. t.) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.

(v. i.) To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.

(v. i.) To associate; to mingle.

(n. & v.) See Pyx.