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Pye vs Pyx - What's the difference?

pye | pyx |

As nouns the difference between pye and pyx

is that pye is (the pastry food) while pyx is the small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the eucharist.

pye

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (the pastry food).
    • 1747: A Cheshire Pork Pye for Sea'' — , 1998, ISBN 0-642-10693-2, page 1.)

    Anagrams

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    pyx

    English

    (wikipedia pyx)

    Noun

    (es)
  • The small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist.
  • * 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses
    • And at the same instant perhaps a priest round the corner is elevating it. Dringdring! And two streets off another locking it into a pyx . Dringadring! And in a ladychapel another taking housel all to his own cheek. Dringdring!
  • A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint.
    • (Mushet)
  • (nautical) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.
    • (Weale)
  • (anatomy) pyxis

    • See also

    * (Trial of the Pyx)