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‖ pyxis|ˈpɪksɪs|
Also 5, 8 pixis. Pl. pyxides |ˈpɪksɪdiːz|.
[L. pyxis: see pyx.]
1. A small box or vase; a casket; = pyx 1, 2.[1390Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 222 Item pro j pixide et tunder, fyryren et broches, j duc. xx s.] 1536Regr. Riches in Antiq. Sarisb. (1771) 190 Divers Pyxides of Ivory with clasps and without them, of silver, with many holy relicks. 1842J. Yates in Smith's Dict. Gr. & Rom. Antiq. 812/2 Nero deposited his beard in a valuable pyxis, when he shaved for the first time. 1897Syd. Soc. Lex., Pyxis, a small box for holding salves, medicines, etc. 1907Edin. Rev. Apr. 470 In ivory there is a cylindrical pyxis, pagan work of about the fourth century.
2. Anat. The acetabulum or socket of the hip-bone, into which the head of the thigh-bone is inserted.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 176 Eueri of hem haþ a box þat is clepid pixis, haunche & vertebrum sit þeron. 1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Pyxis, the Cavity of the Hip-bone, which is called Acetabulum. 1854–67C. A. Harris Dict. Med. Terminol., Pyxis,..also, the acetabulum.
3. (In full pyxis nautica.) The mariner's compass. Also, the name of one of the southern constellations, often considered as part of Argo.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xii. 61, I had not the accomodation of the Pyxis, nor any Horizontal Plate divided into more points of the Compass. 1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 177/2 Pyxis nautica (the Mariner's Compass), a southern constellation of Lacaille, placed in Argo.
4. Bot.
a. = pyxidium.
†b. The theca of a moss. Obs.
c. A cup-like dilatation of the podetium in lichens, having shields on its edge.
1845Lindley Sch. Bot. i. (1858) 17 The pyxis, which throws off a cap, as in the Henbane. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. vii. §2. 293 A Pyxis or Pyxidium is a dry fruit which opens by a circular line, cutting off the upper part as a lid.
5. Zool.
a. A genus of land-tortoises, having as the only known species Pyxis arachnoides (Gray) of Madagascar and Mauritius.
b. A genus of coleopterous insects, containing about 8 species (Dejean, 1834).
†c. A synonym of Productus, a genus of Brachiopods (Chemnitz, 1784). |