housing vs pyx

housing

noun
  • A niche for a statue. 

  • A mechanical component's container or covering. 

  • Residences, collectively. 

  • A houseline. 

  • That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel. 

  • A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings. 

  • The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone. 

  • An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness. 

  • The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another. 

pyx

noun
  • A (small) box; a casket, a coffret. 

  • A box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public. 

  • A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass. 

verb
  • To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin. 

  • To deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public. 

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