boxed, ppl. a.
(bɒkst)
[f. box v.1 + -ed.]
Enclosed in, or as in, a box; confined within uncomfortably narrow limits. Frequently with up. Also with in. boxed shutters: shutters folding into boxings.
| 1589 Warner Alb. Eng. v. xxiii. 115 Their [i.e. Papists'] skaer-spright water, boxed Boans, their hoasts. 1865 J. D. Burn Three Years among Working-classes in U.S. 254 It is often dangerous for a person with boxed-up notions to try the experiment of letting them loose in company. 1885 Hugh Conway Fam. Affair xxxiv. 314 The fearful room with its boxed-up odour of death. 1900 Times 15 Mar. 8/1 The boxed machinery. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 29 Aug. 10/1 The reception and despatch of the boxed fruit. 1939 N. Coward Play Parade II. p. x, Boxed in. Part of Stage surrounded by a three or fourfold Scene set down to the Proscenium or False Proscenium. 1960 Times 16 Sept. 16/7 The acoustics of the theatre..giving a boxed-in sound to the score. |
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▸ boxed set n. a collection of related items, esp. film or music recordings or books, packaged and sold together in a box.
| 1895 Chicago Tribune 22 Dec. 3/6 The *boxed set of three volumes of literary studies, now republished by the new firm, are as bright and rich in book lore as when they first appeared. 1947 New Yorker 22 Mar. 102/2 You should allow yourself three hours to listen to Columbia's two-volume boxed set of Handel's ‘Messiah’. 2006 Gaz. (Montreal) (Nexis) 3 June i.1 Though some of the films are available as singles, the boxed set contains added features on the bonus disc. |