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Word Meanings - LIGHTWEIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighingnot more than 133 pounds

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  • WRESTLE
    1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
  • BOXER
    One who boxes; a pugilist.
  • BOX KITE
    A kite, invented by Lawrence Hargrave, of Sydney, Australia, which consist of two light rectangular boxes, or cells open on two sides, and fastened together horizontally. Called also Hargrave, or cellular, kite.
  • BOXING
    The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring. Blackstone. Boxing glove, a large padded mitten or glove used in sparring for exercise or amusement.
  • BOXING DAY
    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.
  • BOXTHORN
    A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.
  • BOX TAIL
    In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.
  • BOXBERRY
    The wintergreern. .
  • BOX
    A blow on the head or ear with the hand. A good-humored box on the ear. W. Irving.
  • BOXHAUL
    To put on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox . Totten.
  • BOXKEEPER
    An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.
  • WRESTLING
    Act of one who wrestles; specif., the sport consisting of the hand-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants who seek to throw each other. The various styles of wrestling differ in their definition of a fall and in the governing rules.
  • BOXWOOD
    The wood of the box .
  • BOX-IRON
    A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.
  • BOXHAULING
    A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.
  • BOXFISH
    The trunkfish.
  • WRESTLER
    One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.
  • BOXEN
    Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box . The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden.
  • POORBOX
    A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.
  • BANDBOX
    A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs , collars, caps, bonnets, etc.
  • AXLE BOX
    1. A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes. 2. The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle. Note: In railway construction, the axle guard, or pedestal, with the superincumbent weight, rests on the top of
  • VANITY BOX
    A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toilet articles for a woman.
  • POUNCET BOX
    A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes. Shak.
  • SPITBOX
    A vessel to receive spittle.
  • CARBOXIDE
    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.
  • ABOX
    Braced aback.
  • RATTLEBOX
    1. A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle. An American herb , the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod. Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
  • DICEBOX
    A box from which dice are thrown in gaming. Thackeray.
  • HATBOX
    A box for a hat.
  • CARBOXYL
    The complex 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.

 

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