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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOX'ING, ppr. Inclosing in a box; striking with the fist; furnishing with a box.
BOX'ING, n. The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist.
BOX'-THORN, n. [box and thorn.] A plant, the Lycium, or a species of it.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: fighting with the fists [syn: boxing, pugilism, fisticuffs]
2: the enclosure of something in a package or box [syn: packing, boxing]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1605 the art of attack and defense with the fists practiced as a sport II. noun Date: 1607 1. an act of enclosing in a box 2. a boxlike enclosure ; casing 3. material used for boxes and casings

Britannica Concise

Sport involving attack and defense with the fists. In the modern sport, boxers wear padded gloves and fight bouts of up to 15 three-minute rounds in a three-roped square ring. In ancient Greece fighters used leather thongs on their hands and forearms, while in Rome gladiators used metal-studded leather hand covering (cesti) and usually fought to the death. Not until implementation of the London Prize Ring rules in 1839 were kicking, gouging, butting, biting, and blows below the belt eliminated from the boxer's standard repertoire. In 1867 the Queensberry rules called for the wearing of gloves, though bareknuckle boxing continued into the late 1880s. The last of the great bareknuckle fighters was J. L. Sullivan. From Sullivan on, the U.S. became the premier boxing venue, partly because immigrants supplied a constantly renewed pool of boxers. Boxing has been included among the Olympic Games since 1904. Today there are seven primary weight classes: flyweight, to 112 lbs (51 kg); bantamweight, to 118 lbs (53 kg); featherweight, to 126 lbs (57 kg); lightweight, to 135 lbs (61 kg); welterweight, to 147 lbs (67 kg); middleweight, to 160 lbs (72 kg); light heavyweight, to 175 lbs (79 kg); and heavyweight, over 175 lbs. A bout can be won either by knocking out or felling one's opponent for a count of 10 (a KO) or by delivering the most solid blows and thus amassing the most points. The referee can also stop the fight when one boxer is being badly beaten (a technical knockout, or TKO) or he can disqualify a fighter for rules violations and award the fight to his opponent.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the practice of fighting with the fists, esp. in padded gloves as a sport. Phrases and idioms: boxing glove each of a pair of heavily padded gloves used in boxing. boxing weight each of a series of fixed weight-ranges at which boxers are matched.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Box Box, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boxed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Boxing.] 1. To inclose in a box. 2. To furnish with boxes, as a wheel. 3. (Arch.) To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form. To box a tree, to make an incision or hole in a tree for the purpose of procuring the sap. To box off, to divide into tight compartments. To box up. (a) To put into a box in order to save; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To confine; as, to be boxed up in narrow quarters.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Boxing Box"ing, n. 1. The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation. 2. Material used in making boxes or casings. 3. Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing. 4. (Arch.) The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Boxing Box"ing, n. The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Boxing is a sport in which two people wearing large padded gloves fight according to special rules.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

See GAMES.

Moby Thesaurus

Chinese boxing, bottling, bout, boxing match, canning, close fighting, crating, encasement, fighting, fisticuffs, infighting, package, packaging, packing, prizefight, prizefighting, pugilism, ring, savate, shadowboxing, spar, the clinches, the fights, the ring, tinning