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.
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) box; a casket, a coffret.
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.
Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
A person who attempts to return the serve.
The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece.
A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.
A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
The part of a firearm containing the action.
A person who accepts stolen goods.
An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such.
An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum.