Ear-rings in various shapes, necklaces in numerous rows, bracelets in the forms of hoops or snakes for the upper and lower arms, and various other trinkets v. 'ere in great request, and were kept in a species of casket or box, called pyxis, from the name of the wood of which it was orignaliy made; and these caskets, as Avell as the small oval hand mirrors of metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Costume of the ancients] Reference

Ranging in size from two to ten centimeters, the pieces include an ivory furniture plaque, a gold ring, a red jasper stamp seal, and the flat lid of a pyxis, or small box — from Anatolia, Mycenae, Vapheio, and Byblos, respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Foreign Influence] Reference

About pyxis Discovery B.V. (www. pyxis-discovery.com).    From Wordnik.com.  [BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories] Reference

Detail from a pyxis showing a scene from the women's quarter, c450BC Photograph: British Musuem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

In the same tomb (tomb 37) one more pyxis (pi. xxxv, A), again with birds on either side of the mouth, was found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]] Reference

Dodwell pyxis of 650 to 620 B.C., a man wears an oval shield, covering him from the base of the neck to the ankles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

Khiro - kitia has, however, yielded a great number of stone vessels in which the pyxis shape may be easily identified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]] Reference

The word pyx (Lat., pyxis, which transliterates the Greek, pyxis, box-wood receptacle, from pyxos, box-tree) was formerly applied in a wide and general sense to all vessels used to contain the Blessed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

In one -- the pyxis -- the plastron is furnished with a transverse hinge, so that the animal can retract its head and fore-limbs within the carapace, and close the plastron upon it, first shutting them in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

& pgr; υ&xgr; ις (pyxis) a ` smallish boxwood box 'for & pgr; ιθος, the largest wine storage container.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference

XIV, b) together with the snake and the horned head (probably buirs), and especially on the double-necked jug (pi. xix, d) and the pyxis (pi. xxxv, a), where its meaning is more clearly suggested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]] Reference

pyxis emignot chez pyxis-tech point com.    From Wordnik.com.  [BarCamp] Reference

Eric Mignot http: / / www. pyxis-tech.com.    From Wordnik.com.  [BarCamp] Reference

The vessels which the Sacred Species was kept were called indiscriminately capsa, pyxis, cuppa, turris, columba, and ciborium, and were themselves preserved either in a chamber in the sacristy (secretarium), in a niche in the wall or pillar (ambry), under an altar, or in other places designated hy the words diaconium, pastophorium, vestiarium, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference