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Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). [R.] The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden.

One who packs boxes.

The trunkfish.

r short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind). Totten.

A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.

The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.

The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc. The night of this day is boxing night. [Eng.]

An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.

A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.

The wood of the box (Buxus).

A kind of fox found in Sweden (Vulpes alopex), smaller than the common fox (V. vulgaris), but probably a variety of it.

Heretical.

Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy. [R.] Heterodoxy, or what Luther calls cacodoxy. R. Turnbull.

A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.

A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide. Potassium carboxide, a grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium.

omplex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl.

A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.

The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.

The seat of a coachman.

A crafty fox. [Obs.] Chaucer.