(n.) A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.
Example Sentences:
(1) The binnacle protected the ship's metal compass and its coming home to Cardiff is the result of a long hard fight by Dr Peter Lloyd Jones and Michael Tarver, vice president of the Captain Scott Society.
(2) They told me a bit more about the binnacle in the video below.
(3) It is here visitors will get the chance to view the original binnacle from the Terra Nova ship which took Captain Scott and his team on their ill-fated voyage to Antarctica in 1910.
Pyx
Definition:
(n.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.
(n.) A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint.
(n.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.
(n.) Same as Pyxis.
(v. t.) To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amino acid sequence of the active center hexapeptide has been determined to be: H2NLys(Pyx)Pro-Gly-Met-Thr-Arg-COOH.
(2) After PVN injection of PYX-2 (50-900 pmoles) alone, a strong dose-dependent reduction in spontaneous carbohydrate intake at the onset of the dark cycle was observed in freely-feeding rats.
(3) This study examined the behavioral effects of a newly synthesized NPY antagonist, PYX-2.
(4) After screening a series of mixtures of NPY analogs by using an NPY antagonist assay, two potent receptor antagonists, designated PYX-1 and PYX-2, were isolated from an antagonist-containing mixture.
(5) Amino acid analysis of the peptide demonstrated the presence of N6-pyridoxyl-L-lysine (Lys(Pyx)), establishing the existence of an essential lysing residue in the active center of malate dehydrogenase.
(6) Moreover, at even lower doses (12.5 and 25.0 pmoles), PYX-2 also blocked the stimulatory action of PVN NPY (100 pmoles) on carbohydrate ingestion.
(7) Chronic conditioning by the NPY antagonist PYX-2 blocked the effect of innervation.