a. arch. [f. BOX sb.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. H. K. White, Clifton Grove, 54. Beneath the boxen hedge reclin’d.
1835. Fraser’s Mag., XII. 543/1.
| Love, the runaway, to see | |
| Perch’d amid a boxen tree. |
2. Made of or resembling box-wood.
[c. 1000. Ælfric, Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 124. Pixis, bixen box.]
1566. Studley, Seneca’s Agamem. (1581), 147 b. The hollow boxen pype … doth geue a solemne sound.
1637. Pocklington, Altare Chr., 42. Powder to turne my boxen teeth into Ivory.
1710. Philips, Pastorals, vi. 17. A Boxen Haut-Boy, loud, and sweet of Sound.
1790. Cowper, Iliad, XXIV. 344. The sculptured boxen yoke.
