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pix 音标拼音: [p'ɪks] n. [新闻] 照片;电影 [新闻] 照片;电影 pix n 1: a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay [ synonym: { pyx}, { pix}, { pyx chest}, { pix chest}] 2: any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept [ synonym: { pyx}, { pix}] Pix \ Pix\, n. & v. See { Pyx}. [ 1913 Webster] Pixy
Pyx \ Pyx\, n. [ L. pyxis a box, Gr. pyxi` s a box, especially of boxwood, fr. py` xos the box tree or boxwood. See { Box} a receptacle.] [ Written also { pix}.] 1. ( R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. -- Mushet. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. -- Weale. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Anat.) Same as { Pyxis}. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. -- Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster]
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