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.