Usually means: Container for consecrated bread, Eucharistic vessel.
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  1. pyx: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pyx: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pyx: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pyx: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pyx: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pyx, pyx: Wordnik
  7. pyx: Wiktionary
  8. pyx: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pyx (pix): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pyx: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. PYX: Dictionary.com
  12. pyx: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. PyX (vector graphics language), Pyx (disambiguation), Pyx, The Pyx: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Pyx: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. pyx: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. pyx: Rhymezone
  17. pyx: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  18. Pyx: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pyx: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Pyx: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. pyx: Free Dictionary
  22. pyx: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. pyx: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pyx: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pyx: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. pyx: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pyx: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. PYX: Acronym Finder
  2. PYX: Three Letter Words with definitions
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  4. pyx: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pyx: Catholic Encyclopedia

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  1. pyx: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pyx: Glossary of Medieval Architecture

Definitions from Wiktionary (pyx)

noun:  (Roman Catholicism, also figurative) A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass.
noun:  (by extension, rare) A (small) box; a casket, a coffret.
noun:  (chiefly British) A box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public.
noun:  (nautical, obsolete, rare) A compass used by sailors.
verb:  (obsolete) To place (the host) in a pyx.
verb:  (figuratively) To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin.
verb:  (chiefly British) To deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public.

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