Dictionary Entry
pyx
pyx is a 3-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.
- 4noun
Same as Pyxis.
- 5transitive verb
To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.
- 6noun
any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept
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- 7noun
a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
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