boxen, a. arch.
(ˈbɒksən)
[f. box n.1 + -en1.]
1. Of or pertaining to the box-tree or box-trees.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens vi. xxxi. 699 The lye in which Boxen leaves have been stieped, maketh the heare yellow. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 613 Cytorus, ever green With Boxen Groves. c 1800 K. White Clift. Gr. 54 Beneath the boxen hedge reclined. 1835 Fraser's Mag. XII. 543. |
2. Made of or resembling box-wood.
| [c 1000 ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 124 Pixis, bixen box.] 1566 J. Studley Seneca's Agamem. (1581) 147 b, The hollow boxen pype..doth geue a solemne sound. 1637 J. Pocklington Altare Chr. 42 Powder to turne my boxen teeth into Ivory. 1710 Philips Pastorals vi. 17 A Boxen Haut-Boy, loud, and sweet. 1790 Cowper Iliad xxiv. 344 The sculptured boxen yoke. |