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A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.

The radical KO, derived from, and supposed to exist in, potassium hydroxide and other compounds.

See Pouncet box.

A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes. Shak.

ons of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.

A coxcomb; a pert boy. [Obs.]

A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.

That one of a series of oxides having the lowest proportion of oxygen. See Proto-, 2 (b). protoxide of nitrogen, laughing gas, now called hyponitrous oxideNO. See under Laughing.

To combine with oxygen, as any elementary substance, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.

"The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes." [Rhode Island] Bartlett.

An officer who had the charge of showing hospitality to those who came from a friendly city or state.

A negotiator; a factor. [R.] Dr. H. More.

The action of a go-between or broker in negotiating immoral bargains between the sexes; procuring.

Toward a proximal part; on the proximal side of; proximally.

Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate.

On or toward a proximal part; proximad.

Nearest; next immediately preceding or following. "Proximate ancestors." J. S. Harford. The proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]. T. Burnet. Proximate analysis (Chem.), an analysis which determines the proximate principles of any substance, as contrasted with an ultimate analysis. -- Proximate cause. (a) A caus…

In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.

Next; immediately preceding or following. [Obs.]

Proximate. [Obs.]