Definitions for pixes

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pixes pix

Spelling: [piks]

IPA: /pɪks/

Pixes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in pixes (eipsx).

Definitions for pixes

noun

1. pyx.
2. a plural of pic1 .
3. pic2 .
4. Ecclesiastical. the box or vessel in which the reserved Eucharist or Host is kept. a watch-shaped container for carrying the Eucharist to the sick.
5. Also called pyx chest. a box or chest at a mint, in which specimen coins are deposited and reserved for trial by weight and assay.

Origin of pixes

1350-1400; Middle English pyxe Latin pyxis Greek pyxís a box, orig. made of boxwood

Examples for pixes

It may also be used as pix liquida, with equal part of alcohol.

The Company's assay of the coin, or trial of the pix, a curious proceeding of great solemnity, now takes place every year.

When the pumpkins blow, I will invite all the rest and leave out pix.

It also mentions pix as a Devon imprecation, ‘a pix take him.’

"They will not tolerate us up stairs," said Anton, hurriedly, to pix.

Fat Mrs. pix enjoyed a certain sort of vogue from 1696 to 1709.

If my pix is so offensive to media critics, why do they keeping flashing the damn thing over & over?

I got in and drove to pix, a 24 hour camera shop, to get some more film.

My lady-love has some fortune, and pix thinks it would be best invested in his firm.

Nuremberg, so rich in legend, tells a story of the origin of the pix.