Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ox \Ox\ ([o^]ks), n.; pl. Oxen. [AS. oxa; akin to D. os. G. ochs, ochse, OHG. ohso, Icel. oxi, Sw. & Dan. oxe, Goth. a['u]hsa, Skr. ukshan ox, bull; cf. Skr. uksh to sprinkle. [root]214. Cf. Humid, Aurochs.] (Zo["o]l.) 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.
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field.
--Ps. viii. 7.
Note: The castrated male is called a steer until it attains its full growth, and then, an ox; but if castrated somewhat late in life, it is called a stag. The male, not castrated, is called a bull. These distinctions are well established in regard to domestic animals of this genus. When wild animals of this kind are spoken of, ox is often applied both to the male and the female. The name ox is never applied to the individual cow, or female, of the domestic kind. Oxen may comprehend both the male and the female.
Grunting ox (Zo["o]l.), the yak.
Indian ox (Zo["o]l.), the zebu.
Javan ox (Zo["o]l.), the banteng.
Musk ox. (Zo["o]l.) 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. [Obs.]
--Marston.
Ox ray (Zo["o]l.), a very large ray ( Dicerobatis Giorn[ae]) 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).
--Leigh Hunt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English oxa "ox" (plural oxan), from Proto-Germanic *ukhson (cognates: Old Norse oxi, Old Frisian oxa, Middle Dutch osse, Old Saxon, Old High German ohso, German Ochse, Gothic auhsa), from PIE *uks-en- "male animal," (cognates: Welsh ych "ox," Middle Irish oss "stag," Sanskrit uksa, Avestan uxshan- "ox, bull"), said to be from root *uks- "to sprinkle," related to *ugw- "wet, moist." The animal word, then, is literally "besprinkler."
Wiktionary
n. 1 An adult castrated male of cattle (''Bos taurus'') 2 Any bovine animal (tribe ''Bovini'') used as a beast of burden
WordNet
Wikipedia
The Ox (丑) is the 2nd of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Ox is denoted by the Earthly Branch symbol 丑.
In the Vietnamese zodiac, the water buffalo occupies the position of the Ox.
Samer el Nahhal (born 11 July 1975, Espoo) is the current bassist of the Finnish hard rock band Lordi. He goes by the stage name of OX (both letters capitalized). He studied in Musicians Institute in Los Angeles.
An ox is a mammal.
Ox, OX or The Ox may also refer to:
Ox is the alias of fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Ox is originally one of the Enforcers, who usually works for the Kingpin, Mister Fear or Hammerhead.
The Ox mansion (牛宿, pinyin: Niú Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the northern mansions of the Black Tortoise.
Ox is an object-oriented matrix programming language with a mathematical and statistical function library, developed by Jurgen Doornik. It has been designed for econometric programming. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms.
The downloadable console version of Ox is free for academic use. A commercial version is available for non-academic use. According to its documentation, it should be cited whenever results are published.
The programming environment for econometric modelling OxMetrics is based on Ox.
Ox is a Canadian alternative country band formed in 2003 in Vancouver. The core of the band consists of Mark Browning on lead vocals and guitar, Ryan Bishops on guitar and piano, Shawn Dicey on bass and Max Myth on drums. Jesse Zubot, Nathan Lawr, Kevin Kane and the members of Be Good Tanyas are among the band's frequent guest collaborators.
Formed in Vancouver, British Columbia after Browning and Bishops moved there from Sudbury, Ontario, the band released its debut album in 2003. The album was popular on Canadian campus radio where it reached No. 1 across Canada (#56 in the USA CMJ Chart), and the band toured across Canada, the United States and Europe to support the album.
They released their second album, American Lo-Fi, in October 2006. The album reached No. 6 across Canada in !earshot. The band subsequently moved its home base back to Browning's hometown of Sudbury.
Their third album, Burnout, was released in November 2009, and reached No. 5 in !earshot. Subsequently, Ox filmed music videos for the tracks "Unknown Legend" and "Prom Queen" with director John Alden Milne.
OX is metalcore band Coalesce's fourth studio album, and first full length released since 1999's 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening. The album was released on June 9, 2009 in the United States through Relapse Records, and on June 15, 2009 to the rest of the world. OX became Coalesce's first charting release, peaking at number 28 on the US Top Heatseekers chart.
Ox or The Ox is a nickname of:
Ox:
- Oscar Ox Eckhardt (1901-1951), American Major League Baseball and National Football League player
- Grover Ox Emerson (1907-1998), American National Football League player
- Okey Geffin (1921-2004), South African rugby union player nicknamed "Ox" while a World War II prisoner of war
- Fred Ox McKibbon, 1920s college football player
- John Ox Miller (1915-2007), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Owen Ox Parry (1914-1976), American National Football League player
- James van Hoften (born 1944), American astronaut, US Navy officer and aviator and engineer
The Ox:
- John Entwistle (1944-2002), English musician, bassist of the band The Who
- Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (born 1993), English footballer
- Tomasso Petto (1879–1905), New York mobster and hitman
- Charles Reiser (1878-1921), American safecracker and murderer
- David Schwarz (footballer) (born 1972), retired Australian rules footballer and radio personality
Ox is a restaurant in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was awarded a Michelin star for 2016.
Usage examples of "ox".
Does it not say that Hu the Mighty, the inventor of husbandry, who brought the Cumry from the summer-country, drew the old afanc out of the lake of lakes with his four gigantic oxen?
And now, Baas, I have had enough of this, and should like to return to our outspan and examine those new oxen.
Still, I am glad none of them wish to marry me, Baas, and make me work like a whole team of oxen to drag them out of their mudholes.
These huge, ponderous, and lethargic beasts of burden, Bozo knew, are most commonly domesticated by man, and are used to draw wains, much in the manner of oxen.
Corporal List sat on the buckboard, his switch snapping the dusty, sweat-runnelled backs of the pair of oxen labouring at their yokes.
After the trees were down, the buckers had cut them into lengths, then they were snaked away by tractors handled by men called cat-doctors, or by teams driven by men who were always called bull-punchers because in the old days the dragging had been done by oxen.
Cart wheels and oxen crunched through puddles snap frozen, then plowed by their passage to shards like white cullet, salted in heaps at a glassworks.
In front of these men, directing the operations, stood no other than our friend Billali, looking rather tired, but particularly patriarchal with his flowing beard, and as cool and unconcerned as though he were superintending the cutting up of an ox.
But if virtue consists only in effort, Eucrites, and in that intense application by which the disciples of Zeno pretend to render themselves equal to the gods, the frog, which swelled itself out to try and become as big as the ox, accomplished a masterpiece of stoicism.
His oxen and fatlings are killed, His wine is drawn, and His table furnished, and all things ready.
Pivoting on my left toe, I swung a terrific right to his jaw, and, like a felled ox, he dropped in his tracks.
The poor devil went down like a felled ox, and rolled in the dirt among the furiously excited dogs.
Then, as the first labourer struggled to his feet, he was kicked sideways by a blow that might have felled an ox.
I swung my fist squarely to his jaw and he went down like a felled ox.
The rest from normal labors on feriae extended to slaves and also some animals, including oxen but excluding equines of all varieties.