3. (Arch.) To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.
To box a tree, to make an incision or hole in a tree for the purpose of procuring the sap. -- To box off, to divide into tight compartments. -- To box up. (a) To put into a box in order to save; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To confine; as, to be boxed up in narrow quarters.
Box, n. [Cf.Dan. baske to slap, bask slap, blow. Cf. Pash.] A blow on the head or ear with the hand.
A good-humored box on the ear.
W. Irving.
Box, v. i. To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.
Box, v. t. To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.
Box, v. t. [Cf.Sp. boxar, now spelt bojar.] To boxhaul.
To box off (Naut.), to turn the head of a vessel either way by bracing the headyards aback. -- To box the compass (Naut.), to name the thirty-two points of the compass in their order.
Box"ber`ry (&?;), n. (Bot.) The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens). [Local, U.S.]
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Box"en (bks"'n), a. Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). [R.]
The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves.
Dryden.
Box"er (bks"r), n. One who packs boxes.
Box"er, n. One who boxes; a pugilist.
Box"fish` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) The trunkfish.
Box"haul` (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boxhauled (&?;).] (Naut.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind). Totten.
Box"haul`ing, n. (Naut.) A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.
Box"ing, n. 1. The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.