ox : Idioms & Phrases

• noun genus of Asiatic wild oxen
  

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• . Same as Draught box, Draught engine, etc. See under Draught.

Webster 1913

• an ox employed in hauling loads, plowing, etc.

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• (Zoöl.), the yak.

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• (Zoöl.), the zebu.

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• (Zoöl.), the banteng.

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• noun large shaggy-coated bovid mammal of Canada and Greenland; intermediate in size and anatomy between an ox and a sheep
  Ovibos moschatus; musk sheep.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an Arctic hollow-horned ruminant (Ovibos moschatus), now existing only in America, but found fossil in Europe and Asia. It is covered with a thick coat of fine yellowish wool, and with long dark hair, which is abundant and shaggy on the neck and shoulders. The full-grown male weighs over four hundred pounds.

Webster 1913

• . See Ox gall, below.

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• the fresh gall of the domestic ox; used in the arts and in medicine.

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• ox marrow. Obs. Marston.

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• (Zoöl.), a very large ray (Dicerobatis Giornæ) 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.

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• adjective satellite having large round eyes like those of an ox
  
  • ox-eyed Juno

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• noun tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum
  moon daisy; white daisy; oxeye daisy; Chrysanthemum leucanthemum; Leucanthemum vulgare; marguerite.
  

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• to be unfortunate; to know what sorrow is (because black oxen were sacrificed to Pluto). Leigh Hunt.

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• noun an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
  Bubalus bubalis; water buffalo; Asiatic buffalo.
  

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• noun any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos
  ox.
  

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