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1. (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.Examples: "Scrapbooks that have enduring value in their original form should be individually boxed in custom-fitted boxes."; ""I best get busy and box up these bones," she said, suddenly anxious to get moving. […] As she started to step around the grave washed out by last night's rainstorm, the sun caught on something caught in the mud."Synonyms: box up, case, embox, encase, pack, pack up, packagetransitive

2. (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.Examples: "A large majority of children seem to delight in emotionally boxing in their parents—setting the double-bind trap by giving the parent two choices but determining ahead of time that neither choice will be sufficient for their satisfaction."transitive

3. (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.Examples: "Straining eliminates lumps in the paint. If the paint has separated, stir the thick paint up from the bottom of each can to free as many lumps as possible. Then box the paint, pouring it all together through a nylon paint strainer and into the bucket. Paint less than one year old usually doesn't require straining. Older paint might have a thick skin on the top; remove the skin and set it aside. Box the paint, pouring it through a nylon paint strainer into the bucket."transitive

4. (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.Examples: "The early settlers either boxed the tree or cut large slanting gashes, from the lower end of which a rudely fashioned spout conducted the sap to a bucket. This method was very destructive to the tree, and boring was substituted for it."transitive

5. (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.Examples: "As early as the 1850s, prisons were being made "safer" by boxing in water pipes and enclosing galleries with netting to prevent jumping."transitive

6. (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.Examples: "[T]he death of the said deceased Daniel Docherty, while in the defender's employment as an engineman, […] is alleged to have been owing to the engine house, which contained the engine of which the deceased had charge, being of a dangerous and improper construction, and the fly-wheel not having been boxed in or covered: […]"transitive

1. (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.Examples: "Evenin’, folks. Thought y’all might lak uh lil music this evenin’ so Ah brought long mah box."slang

2. (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).Australia

3. (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.Examples: "The name "Black Box" seems to be most generally in use for this species, Eucalyptus boormani; the even better name of "Ironbark Box" (which certainly indicates its affinities) is nearly as frequently in use."Australia

1. (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.Examples: "to box someone’s ears"; "Leave this place before I box you!"; "Mrs. Reed soon rallied her spirits: she shook me most soundly, she boxed both my ears, and then left me without a word."transitive

2. (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.transitive

3. (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.intransitivestative

1. (dated) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.Examples: "BOX. Box (Boops), […] In both jaws a single anterior series of broad incisors, notched at the cutting margin; no molars."; "The Bogue. […] Box or Boops. Generic Character.—Body elongated, rounded, the dorsal and ventral profiles alike, and the general aspect peculiarly trim."; "BOGUE. BOX. OXEYE. […] In some parts of the European side of the Mediterranean the Bogue is a common fish, and where it frequents it is in great abundance."dated