What does "pyx" mean?
Pyx: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.(Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. Weale.
- 3.(Anat.) Same as Pyxis. 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.
- 4.To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx. [Eng.] Mushet.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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