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.