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.
A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
Any similarly shaped container.
A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle
To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.