healing-pyx

The Century Dictionary: The Encyelopedic Lexicon of the English Language · 1887 · p. 95

(hé’ ling-piks),n. Eccles. the pyx or box which contains the sacred oil for anointing the sick. healing-stone}, x. A roofing-slate or -tile. For the covering of houses there are three sorts of slate, which from that use take the name of Healing-stonzs. R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall, fol. 6. healle t,a. [ME. heleles;