Ox /(ŏks)/
Ox
n.
pl. Oxen
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The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female. (Zool.)
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field.
Phrases & Compounds
- Grunting ox
- the yak.
- Indian ox
- the zebu.
- Javan ox
- the banteng.
- Musk ox
- See under Musk.
- Ox bile
- See Ox gall, below.
- Ox gall
- the fresh gall of the domestic ox; -- used in the arts and in medicine.
- Ox pith
- ox marrow.
- Ox ray
- a very large ray (Dicerobatis Giornae) of Southern Europe. It has a hornlike organ projecting forward from each pectoral fin. It sometimes becomes twenty feet long and twenty-eight feet broad, and weighs over a ton. Called also sea devil.
- To have the black ox tread on one's foot
- to be unfortunate; to know what sorrow is (because black oxen were sacrificed to Pluto).