Definition of "tobacco-box" [tobacco-box]

• A small flat pocket-box for holding tobacco for chewing or smoking. (noun)
• A common skate or ray, a batoid fish, Rata erinacea. (noun)
• The common sunfish or pumpkin-seed, Pomotis gibbosus, or another of the same genus. See cut under sunfish. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Therefore the tobacco-box gives us a sensation of blueness."
• "Nevertheless, he had the presence of mind required for pocketing the guinea, which was too good for his tobacco-box; and as one thing at a time was quite enough upon his mind, he probed away slowly, to be sure there was no hole."
• "One aimed a blow full at his heart; but the protecting power which watches over the great and good turned aside the hostile blade and directed it to a side-pocket, where reposed an enormous iron tobacco-box, endowed, like the shield of Achilles, with supernatural powers, doubtless from bearing the portrait of the blessed St. Nicholas."