a kind of athletæ, who combat or contend for victory with their fists. Boxers amount to the same with what among the Romans was called pugiles. The ancient boxers battled with great force and fury, insomuch as to dash out each other's teeth, break bones, and often kill each other. The strange disfigurements the boxers underwent were such that they frequently could not be known, and rendered them the subject of many railleries. In the Greek anthology there are four epigrams of the poet Lucilius, and one of Lucian, wherein their disfigurements are pleasantly enough exposed. See BOXING.