Word Meanings - BOX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box has two varieties, one of which, the dwaft box , is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used

Additional info about word: BOX

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box has two varieties, one of which, the dwaft box , is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc. Box elder, the ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides), of North America. -- Box holly, the butcher's broom . -- Box thorn, a shrub . -- Box tree, the tree variety of the common box.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BOX)

• Cuff Slap
• box
• smack
• punch
• pummel
• hustle
• buffet

Related words: (words related to BOX)

• PUNCHER
  One who, or that which, punches.
• PUNCHY
  Short and thick, or fat.
• BUFFETER
  One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.
• PUNCHINELLO
  A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator. (more info) of endearment, dim. of pulcina, pulcino, a chicken, from L.
• SMACK
  A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
• HUSTLE
  To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room. Macaulay. (more info) Etym:
• PUNCHEON
  A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud. Oxf. Gloss. 3. A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. Bartlett. 4. Etym: (more info) punctio a pricking, fr. pungere to
• BUFFETING
  1. A striking with the hand. 2. A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity. He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm. Wirt.
• PUNCHIN
  See PUNCHEON
• PUMMEL
  See POMMEL
• PUNCH
  A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc. Milk punch, a sort of punch
• BUFFET
  perh. fr. the same source as E. buffet a blow, the root meaning to 1. A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns
• SMACKING
  A sharp, quick noise; a smack. Like the faint smacking of an after kiss. Dryden.
• PRICKPUNCH
  A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.