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The box tortoise.

The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. Core box (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded. -- Core print (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.

To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing. His left hand countered provokingly. C. Kingsley.

which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts. Box coupling, Chain coupling. See under Box, Chain. -- Coupling box, a coupling shaped like a journal box, for clamping together the ends of two shafts, so that they may revolve together. -- Coupling pin, a pin or bolt used in c…

A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.

A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.

A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.

A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.

horse's hoof. -- Crown sheet, the flat plate which forms the top of the furnace or fire box of an internally fired steam boiler. -- Crown shell. (Zoöl.) See Acorn-shell. -- Crown side. See Crown office. -- Crown tax (Eccl. Hist.), a golden crown, or its value, which was required annually from the Jews by the king…

To fight; to scuffle; to box. While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport. Dryden.

ill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc. A man of great defense. Spenser. By how much defense is better than no skill. Shak.

A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.

Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid.

d on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide. [Obs.] Carbon dioxide. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.

ern] Dispatch boat, a swift vessel for conveying dispatches; an advice boat. -- Dispatch box, a box for carrying dispatches; a box for papers and other conveniences when traveling.

To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.

The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs.

lies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent. J. D. Hooker.