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Box [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A coffer or chest, either of wood or metal. In general, the word box is used for a case of rough boards, or more slightly made than a chest, and used for the conveyance of goods. But the name is applied to cases of any size and of any materials; as a wooden box a tin box an iron box a strong box

2. The quantity that a box contains; as a box of quicksilver; a box or rings. In some cases, the quantity called a box is fixed by custom; in others, it is uncertain, as a box of tea or sugar.

3. A certain seat in a play-house, or in any public room.

4. The case which contains the mariner's compass.

5. A money chest.

6. A tree or shrub, constituting the genus buxus, used for bordering flower-beds. The African box is the myrsine.

7. A blow on the head with the hand, or on the ear with the open hand.

8. A cylindrical hollow iron used in wheels, in which the axle-tree runs. Also, a hollow tube in a pump, closed with a valve.

Box [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To fight with the fist; to combat with the hand or fist.

Box [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To inclose in a box; also, to furnish with boxes, as a wheel or block.

2. To strike with the hand or fist, especially the ear or side of the head.

3. To rehearse the several points of the compass in their proper order.

4. To make a hole or cut in a tree, to procure the sap; as, to box a maple.

5. To sail round.

Box [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.

2. A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.

3. The quantity that a box contain.

4. A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.

5. A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.

6. A small country house.

7. A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.

8. An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.

9. A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

10. The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

11. A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.

12. The square in which the pitcher stands.

13. A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

14. A blow on the head or ear with the hand.

Box [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.

Box [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To inclose in a box.

2. To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.

3. To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.

4. To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.

5. To boxhaul.

Box Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

TREE, תאשור, Isa. xli, 9; lx, 13; Ezek. xxvii, 6; 2 Esdras xiv, 24, where the word appears to be used for _tablets_. Most of the ancient, and several of the modern, translators render this word the _buxus_, or “box tree;” but from its being mentioned along with trees of the forest, some more stately tree must be intended, probably the cedar.

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Box-iron [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.

Boxberry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens).

Boxed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Inclosed in a box; struck on the head with the fist or hand; furnished with a box or hollow iron, as a wheel.

Boxed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Boxen [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Made of box-wood; resembling box.

Boxen [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus).

Boxer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who fights with his fist.

Boxer [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To veer a ship in a particular manner, when it is impracticable to tack.

Boxer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who packs boxes.

2. One who boxes; a pugilist.

Boxes [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Boxfish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The trunkfish.

Boxhaul [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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).

Boxhauled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Boxhauling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Boxing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist.

2. A plant, the Lycium, or a species of it.

Boxing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Inclosing in a box; striking with the fist; furnishing with a box.

Boxing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. Material used in making boxes or casings.

3. Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.

4. The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.

5. The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring.

Boxing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Boxkeeper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Boxthorn [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Boxwood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The wood of the box (Buxus).

Boxwood Encyclopedia Britannica

BOXWOOD, the wood obtained from the Euphorbiaceous genus Buxus, the principal species being the well-known tree or shrub, B. sempervirens, the common box. in general use for borders of garden walks, ornamental parterres, &c. The other source of the ordinary boxwood of commerce is B. balearica, which yields the variety known as Turkey boxwood. The common box is grown throughout Great Britain, in the southern part of the European continent generally, and it appears to extend through Persia into India, where it is found growing on the slopes of the Western Himalayas. Only a very small proportion of the wood suitable for industrial uses is now obtained in Great Britain. The box is a very slow growing plant, adding not more than 1 ⅛ or 2 inches to its diameter in twenty years, and on an average attaining only a height of 16 feet, with a mean diameter of 10∣ inches. The leaves of this species are small, oval, leathery in texture, and of a deep glossy green colour. B. balearica is a tree of considerable size, attaining to a height of 80 feet, with leaves three times larger than those of the common box. It is a native of the islands of the Mediterranean, and grows in Turkey, Asia Minor, and around the shores of the Black Sea, and is supposed to be the chief source of the boxwood which comes into European commerce by way of Constantinople. The wood of both species possesses a delicate yellow colour; it is very dense iu structure and has a fine uniform grain, which gives it unique value for the purposes of the wood-engraver. In addition to the ever-increasing demand for the wood by engravers, a very large amount is used in the manufacture of measuring rules, various mathematical instruments, flutes and other musical instruments, as well as for turning into many minor ...

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8 KJV and 3 BSB verses contain “Box”

Exodus 14:3

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’

2 Kings 9:1

And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead:

Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

2 Kings 9:3

Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.

Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and declare, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run. Do not delay!”

Isaiah 41:19

I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,

Isaiah 60:13

The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

The glory of Lebanon will come to you— its cypress, elm, and boxwood together— to adorn the place of My sanctuary, and I will glorify the place of My feet.

Matthew 26:7

There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.

a woman came to Him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, which she poured on His head as He reclined at the table.

Mark 14:3

And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.

Luke 7:37

And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

When a sinful woman from that town learned that Jesus was dining there, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume.

2 Esdras 14:24

But look thou prepare thee many box trees, and take with thee Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ecanus, and Asiel, these five which are ready to write swiftly;