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BOX, n. [Lat. buxus, the tree, and pyxis, a box; Gr. a box, and the tree.]

A coffer or chest, either of wood or metal. In general, the word box is used for a case of rough boards, or more slightly made than a chest,and used for the conveyance of goods. But the name is applied to cases of any size and of any materials; as a wooden box, a tin box, an iron box, a strong box.

1. The quantity that a box contains; as a box of quicksilver; a box or rings. In some cases,the quantity called a box is fixed by custom; in others,it is uncertain, as a box of tea or sugar.

2. A certain seat in a play-house, or in any public room.

3. The case which contains the mariner's compass.

4. A money chest.

5. A tree or shrub, constituting the genus buxus, used for bordering flower-beds. The African box is the myrsine.

6. A blow on the head with the hand, or on the ear with the open hand.

7. A cylindrical hollow iron used in wheels, in which the axle-tree runs. Also, a hollow tube in a pump, closed with a valve.

BOX, v.i. To fight with the fist; to combat with the hand or fist.

BOX, v.t. To inclose in a box; also, to furnish with boxes, as a wheel or block.

1. To strike with the hand or fist, especially the ear or side of the head.

2. To rehearse the several points of the compass in their proper order.

3. To make a hole or cut in a tree, to procure the sap; as, to box a maple.

4. To sail round.



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BOX, n. [Lat. buxus, the tree, and pyxis, a box; Gr. a box, and the tree.]

A coffer or chest, either of wood or metal. In general, the word box is used for a case of rough boards, or more slightly made than a chest,and used for the conveyance of goods. But the name is applied to cases of any size and of any materials; as a wooden box, a tin box, an iron box, a strong box.

1. The quantity that a box contains; as a box of quicksilver; a box or rings. In some cases,the quantity called a box is fixed by custom; in others,it is uncertain, as a box of tea or sugar.

2. A certain seat in a play-house, or in any public room.

3. The case which contains the mariner's compass.

4. A money chest.

5. A tree or shrub, constituting the genus buxus, used for bordering flower-beds. The African box is the myrsine.

6. A blow on the head with the hand, or on the ear with the open hand.

7. A cylindrical hollow iron used in wheels, in which the axle-tree runs. Also, a hollow tube in a pump, closed with a valve.

BOX, v.i. To fight with the fist; to combat with the hand or fist.

BOX, v.t. To inclose in a box; also, to furnish with boxes, as a wheel or block.

1. To strike with the hand or fist, especially the ear or side of the head.

2. To rehearse the several points of the compass in their proper order.

3. To make a hole or cut in a tree, to procure the sap; as, to box a maple.

4. To sail round.

BOX, n. [Sax. box, a coffer and the box tree; L. buxus, the tree, and pyxis, a box; Gr. πυξις, a box, and πυξος, the tree; πυξ, the fist; Ir. bugsa, buksa; Sw. buxbom; Ger. buchsbaum; D. buxbom, the box tree; Ger. büchse, a box; It. bosso, the box tree; bossolo, a box; Sp. box, the tree; Port. buxo, the tree; buxa, a stopple; Pers. بَقَشْ baxas, buxus, box tree; Ar. the same. Box may be from closeness, applied to the shrub, the fist and the case.]

  1. A coffer or chest, either of wood or metal. In general, the word box is used for a case of rough boards, or more slightly made than a chest, and used for the conveyance of goods. But the name is applied to cases of any size and of any materials; as, a wooden box, a tin box, an iron box, a strong box.
  2. The quantity that a box contains; as, a box of quicksilver; a box of rings. In some cases, the quantity called a box is fixed by custom; in others, it is uncertain, as a box of tea or sugar.
  3. A certain seat in a play-house, or in any public room.
  4. The case which contains the mariner's compass.
  5. A money chest.
  6. A tree or shrub, constituting the genus Buxus, used for bordering flower-beds. The African box is the Myrsine.
  7. A blow on the head with the hand, or on the ear with the open hand.
  8. A cylindrical hollow iron used in wheels, in which the axle-tree runs. Also, a hollow tube in a pump, closed with a valve.

BOX, v.i.

To fight with the fist; to combat with the hand or fist.


BOX, v.t.

  1. To inclose in a box; also, to furnish with boxes, as a wheel or block.
  2. To strike with the hand or fist, especially the ear or side of the head.
  3. To rehearse the several points of the compass in their proper order. – Encyc.
  4. To make a hole or cut in a tree to procure the sap; as, to box a maple.
  5. To sail round. [Sp. boxar.]

Box
  1. 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.

    Box elder, the ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides), of North America. -- Box holly, the butcher's broom (Russus aculeatus). -- Box thorn, a shrub (Lycium barbarum). -- Box tree, the tree variety of the common box.

  2. A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.
  3. To inclose in a box.
  4. A blow on the head or ear with the hand.

    A good-humored box on the ear.
    W. Irving.

  5. To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.
  6. To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.
  7. To boxhaul.

    To box off (Naut.), to turn the head of a vessel either way by bracing the headyards aback. -- To box the compass (Naut.), to name the thirty-two points of the compass in their order.

  8. The quantity that a box contain.
  9. To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.
  10. A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.

    Laughed at by the pit, box, galleries, nay, stage.
    Dorset.

    The boxes and the pit are sovereign judges.
    Dryden.

  11. To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.

    To box a tree, to make an incision or hole in a tree for the purpose of procuring the sap. -- To box off, to divide into tight compartments. -- To box up. (a) To put into a box in order to save] as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To confine; as, to be boxed up in narrow quarters.

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

    Yet since his neighbors give, the churl unlocks,
    Damning the poor, his tripple-bolted box.
    J. Warton.

  13. A small country house.

    "A shooting box." Wilson.

    Tight boxes neatly sashed.
    Cowper.

  14. A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.
  15. An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.

    (b)
  16. The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.
  17. A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.

    "A Christmas box." Dickens.
  18. The square in which the pitcher stands.
  19. A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

    * Box is much used adjectively or in composition; as box lid, box maker, box circle, etc.; also with modifying substantives; as money box, letter box, bandbox, hatbox or hat box, snuff box or snuffbox.

    Box beam (Arch.), a beam made of metal plates so as to have the form of a long box. -- Box car (Railroads), a freight car covered with a roof and inclosed on the sides to protect its contents. -- Box chronometer, a ship's chronometer, mounted in gimbals, to preserve its proper position. -- Box coat, a thick overcoat for driving; sometimes with a heavy cape to carry off the rain. -- Box coupling, a metal collar uniting the ends of shafts or other parts in machinery. -- Box crab (Zoöl.), a crab of the genus Calappa, which, when at rest with the legs retracted, resembles a box. -- Box drain (Arch.), a drain constructed with upright sides, and with flat top and bottom. -- Box girder (Arch.), a box beam. -- Box groove (Metal Working), a closed groove between two rolls, formed by a collar on one roll fitting between collars on another. R. W. Raymond. -- Box metal, an alloy of copper and tin, or of zinc, lead, and antimony, for the bearings of journals, etc. -- Box plait, a plait that doubles both to the right and the left. -- Box turtle or Box tortoise (Zoöl.), a land tortoise or turtle of the genera Cistudo and Emys; -- so named because it can withdraw entirely within its shell, which can be closed by hinged joints in the lower shell. Also, humorously, an exceedingly reticent person. Emerson. -- In a box, in a perplexity or an embarrassing position; in difficulty. (Colloq.) -- In the wrong box, out of one's place; out of one's element; awkwardly situated. (Colloq.) Ridley (1554)

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Box

BOX, noun [Lat. buxus, the tree, and pyxis, a box; Gr. a box and the tree.]

A coffer or chest, either of wood or metal. In general, the word box is used for a case of rough boards, or more slightly made than a chest, and used for the conveyance of goods. But the name is applied to cases of any size and of any materials; as a wooden box a tin box an iron box a strong box

1. The quantity that a box contains; as a box of quicksilver; a box or rings. In some cases, the quantity called a box is fixed by custom; in others, it is uncertain, as a box of tea or sugar.

2. A certain seat in a play-house, or in any public room.

3. The case which contains the mariner's compass.

4. A money chest.

5. A tree or shrub, constituting the genus buxus, used for bordering flower-beds. The African box is the myrsine.

6. A blow on the head with the hand, or on the ear with the open hand.

7. A cylindrical hollow iron used in wheels, in which the axle-tree runs. Also, a hollow tube in a pump, closed with a valve.

BOX, verb intransitive To fight with the fist; to combat with the hand or fist.

BOX, verb transitive To inclose in a box; also, to furnish with boxes, as a wheel or block.

1. To strike with the hand or fist, especially the ear or side of the head.

2. To rehearse the several points of the compass in their proper order.

3. To make a hole or cut in a tree, to procure the sap; as, to box a maple.

4. To sail round.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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COUNCIL, n. [L., to call, Gr. See Hold. This word is often confounded with counsel, with which it has no connection. Council is a collection or assembly.]

1. An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation and advice.

The chief priest and all the council sought false witness. Matthew 20.

The kings of England were formerly assisted by a grand council or peers.

The word is applicable to any body of men, appointed or convened for consultation and advice, in important affairs; as, a council of divines or clergymen, with their lay delegates; a council of war, consisting of the principal officers, to advise the commander in chief or admiral; a council of physicians, to consult and advise in difficult cases of disease.

2. A body of men specially designated to advise a chief magistrate in the administration of the government, as in Great Britain.

3. In some of the American states, a branch of the legislature, corresponding with the senate in other states, and called legislative council.

4. An assembly of prelates and doctors, convened for regulating matters of doctrine an discipline in the church.

5. Act of deliberation; consultation of a council.

Common-Council of a city. In London, a court consisting of the lord mayor and aldermen in one house, and of representatives of the several wards, called common-council-men, in the other. But more generally the common-council is considered as the body of representatives of the citizens, as distinct from the mayor and aldermen. Thus in Connecticut, the cities are incorporated by the name of the The Mayor, Aldermen, Common-Council and Freemen, of the city of Hartford, New-Haven, &c.

Ecumenical Council, in church history, a general council or assembly of prelates and doctors, representing the whole church; as the council of Nice, of Ephesus, and of Chalcedon.

Privy Council, a select council for advising a king in the administration of the government.

Aulic Council. [See Aulic.]

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