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<p><b>8.</b> <def>The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.</def>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.</def> "A Christmas <i>box</i>."

<i>Dickens.</i>

<p><b>10.</b> <fld>(Baseball)</fld> <def>The square in which the pitcher stands.</def>

<p><b>11.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Box</i> is much used adjectively or in composition; as <i>box</i> lid, <i>box</i> maker, <i>box</i> circle, etc.; also with modifying substantives; as money <i>box</i>, letter <i>box</i>, band<i>box</i>, hat<i>box</i> or hat <i>box</i>, snuff <i>box</i> or snuff<i>box</i>.</note>

<cs><col>Box beam</col> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>a beam made of metal plates so as to have the form of a long box.</cd> -- <col>Box car</col> <fld>(Railroads)</fld>, <cd>a freight car covered with a roof and inclosed on the sides to protect its contents.</cd> -- <col>Box chronometer</col>, <cd>a ship's chronometer, mounted in gimbals, to preserve its proper position.</cd> -- <col>Box coat</col>, <cd>a thick overcoat for driving; sometimes with a heavy cape to carry off the rain.</cd> -- <col>Box coupling</col>, <cd>a metal collar uniting the ends of shafts or other parts in machinery.</cd> -- <col>Box crab</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a crab of the genus <i>Calappa<i>, which, when at rest with the legs retracted, resembles a box.</cd> -- <col>Box drain</col> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>a drain constructed with upright sides, and with flat top and bottom.</cd> -- <col>Box girder</col> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>a box beam.</cd> -- <col>Box groove</col> <fld>(Metal Working)</fld>, <cd>a closed groove between two rolls, formed by a collar on one roll fitting between collars on another.</cd> <i>R. W. Raymond.</i> -- <col>Box metal</col>, an alloy of copper and tin, or of zinc, lead, and antimony, for the bearings of journals, etc. -- <col>Box plait</col>, <cd>a plait that doubles both to the rigth and the left.</cd> -- <col>Box turtle</col> &or; <col>Box tortoise</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a land tortoise or turtle of the genera <spn>Cistudo</spn> and <spn>Emys</spn>; -- so named because it can withdraw entirely within its shell, which can be closed by hinged joints in the lower shell. Also, humorously, an exceedingly reticent person.</cd> <i>Emerson.</i> -- <col>In a box</col>, <cd>in a perplexity or an embarrassing position; in difficulty.</cd> <mark>(Colloq.)</mark> -- <col>In the wrong box</col>, <cd>out of one's place; out of one's element; awkwardly situated.</cd> <mark>(Colloq.)</mark> <i>Ridley (1554)</i></cs>

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<hw>Box</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Boxed</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Boxing</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To inclose in a box.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.</def>

<cs><col>To box a tree</col>, <cd>to make an incision or hole in a tree for the purpose of procuring the sap.</cd> -- <col>To box off</col>, <cd>to divide into tight compartments.</cd> -- <col>To box up</col>. <cd><sd>(a)</sd> To put into a box in order to save; as, he had <i>boxed up<i> twelve score pounds. <sd>(b)</sd> To confine; as, to be <i>boxed up<i> in narrow quarters.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Box</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf.Dan. <ets>baske</ets> to slap, <ets>bask</ets> slap, blow. Cf. <er>Pash</er>.]</ety> <def>A blow on the head or ear with the hand.</def>

<blockquote>A good-humored <b>box</b> on the ear. <i>W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Box</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.</def>

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<hw>Box</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.</def>

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<hw>Box</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf.Sp. <ets>boxar</ets>, now spelt <ets>bojar</ets>.]</ety> <def>To boxhaul.</def>

<cs><col>To box off</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to turn the head of a vessel either way by bracing the headyards aback.</cd> -- <col>To box the compass</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to name the thirty-two points of the compass in their order.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Box"ber`ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The wintergreern. (<spn>Gaultheria procumbens</spn>).</def> <mark>[Local, U.S.]</mark>

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<hw>Box"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (<spn>Buxus</spn>).</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>