Pyx cloth (R. C. Ch.), a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx. --
Trial of the pyx, the annual testing, in the English mint, of the
standard of gold and silver coins. Encyc. Brit.
Pyx, v. t. To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in
the pyx. [Eng.] Mushet.
Pyx"i*date (?), a. Having a pyxidium.
||Pyx*id"i*um (?), n.; pl. Pyxidia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, dim. a &?; a
||box. See Pyx.] (Bot.) (a) A pod which divides circularly into an
||upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as
||in the pimpernel and purslane. (b) The theca of mosses.
Pyx"ie (pks"), n. (Bot.) Same as Pixy.
||Pyx*is (?), n. [L.] 1. A box; a pyx.