box2 (boks)

t. [ Till he had box'd up twelve score pounds at least, Crabbe, The Borough. 2. To furnish with a box, as a wheel.-3. To make a hole or cut (in a tree) for the sap to collect: as, to box a maple.-4. Naut., to cause (a ve el) to turn short round on her heel by bracing the head-yards aback: sometimes followed by off: as, to box off a ve el. See haul.-5. To form into a box or the shape of a box: as, to box the scenes on a stage. To box the compa , to name the points of the compa in their order; hence, figuratively, to make a complete turn or round. box3 (boks), n. [ The kyng castes up his schelde, and covers hym faire, And with his burlyche brande a box he hyme reaches. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1111. 2. A blow; specifically, a blow on the head with the fist, or on the ear with the open hand. Give him a box , hard, hard, on his left ear. B. Jonson, Magnet ick Lady, iii. 4. He represented to him very warmly that no gentleman could take a box on the ear. "I know that; but this was not a box on the ear, it was only a slap o' the face." Lady M. W. Montagu , Letters, June 22, 1759. box3 (boks), v. [ baksa Sw. baxa = Dan. baxe = G. baxen, boxen, all Chapman , Gentleman Usher, iii. 1. II. in trans. To fight with the fists, whether bare or incased in boxing-gloves; combat with or as with the hands or fists. A leopard is like a cat, he boxes with his fore feet. N. Grew.