Word Meanings - BOXINGDAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc. The night of this day is boxing night. [Eng.]

• Boxwood
  The wood of the box (Buxus).
• Legality
  The state or quality of being legal; conformity to law.
• Nightingale
  A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song.
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BOXTAIL
  In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.
• After-image
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
• After-wit
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• Christmas
  An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.
• Legalization
  The act of making legal.
• Nightish
  Of or pertaining to night.
• AFTERDAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• FIRSTCLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended for passengers wh
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• Christmastide
  The season of Christmas.
• Legalized
  of Legalize
• Nightjar
  A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.
• AFTERDINNER
  The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. [Obs.] -- a.
• FIRSTHAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.

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