noun
definition
An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus).
definition
Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.
adjective
definition
Of, relating to, or resembling an ox; oxlike
Examples of oxen in a Sentence
The Somali have also large herds of cattle - oxen, sheep and goats.
Oxen, usually yoked in teams of eight, were used for ploughing.
On the much agitated question about the employment of horses or oxen in labour, the most important arguments are distinctly stated.
Cakes were laid on the altar of Zeus Polieus and oxen driven round; the one which touched the cakes was the victim.
In the case of oxen the alternate host of the parasite is a special tick (Smith and Kilborne).
We traded our two cows for two young oxen.
For watering the land by the river banks sakias (water-wheels) are used, oxen being employed to turn them There are also a few irrigation canals.
The word " oxen," which occurs in our version of the Scriptures, as well as in the Septuagint and Vulgate, denotes the species, rather than the sex.
Lavrushka was saying something about loaded wagons, biscuits, and oxen he had seen when he had gone out for provisions.
If you cannot borrow enough, you must sell horses, oxen, sheep, cows, anything."
For this reason, many Oxen do not pair well with capricious Tigers.
Oxen and cows are of secondary importance and the climate is unsuitable for sheep; horses of a small breed are used to some extent.
Oxen, formerly the principal draught animals, have been replaced by horses.
The oxen were long-horned, short-horned and polled.
In the latter year the trade employed 3000 wagons, 62,000 oxen and mules, and 7000 men.
When sick they sacrifice oxen.
Large oxen also occur in the Lower Pliocene of India, although not closely allied to the living kinds; while in the same formation are found remains of bison (or [?] yak) and buffaloes, some of the latter being nearly akin to the anoa, although much larger.
On this day the people of Amlwch were treated to a roasted oxen.
Oxen are most compatible with Roosters and Snakes.
Snakes will find their love lives sizzle when paired with Oxen and Roosters.
The true Baggara tribesmen employ oxen as saddle and pack animals, carry no shield, and though many possess firearms the customary weapons are lance and sword.
At harvest the corn was cut high on the stalk with short sickles and put up in sheaves, after which it was carried to the threshing-floor and there trodden out by the hoofs of oxen.
The single exception is provided by the slowly-maturing Highland breed of cattle, for which classes were allotted to (I) steers not exceeding three years old, (2) steers or oxen above three years old (with no maximum limit), and (3) heifers not exceeding four years old.
Besides camels and oxen, sheep and goats are numerous, and meat, hides and butter are articles of local trade.
A villein might be allowed to bring a penny instead of bringing a chicken or to pay a rent instead of appearing with his oxen three times a week on the lord's fields.
In the crannog of Lagore, county Meath, there were about 150 cartloads of bones, chiefly of oxen, deer, sheep and swine, the refuse of the food of the occupants.
Birch trees are thrown into the water near a natural bed of oysters, and the trunks and twigs become covered with spat; the trees are then dragged out upon the shore by oxen, and the young fry are broken off and laid down in the shallows to increase in size.
By inoculating first with a weak virus and then with others which were stronger and stronger, he was able completely to protect oxen either from the effects of inoculation with the strongest virus or from infection through contact with other animals suffering from the disorder.
Oxen are employed for all field-work; those of the commonest breed are tawny, of great muscular power, very docile, and with horns measuring 5 or 6 ft.
Oxen have been introduced from Europe.
The methods of culture are primitive, the plough commonly used being a long pole with two vertical iron teeth and a smaller pole at right angles to which oxen are attached.
The ox is very generally used as a draught animal in country districts remote from railways; sixteen or eighteen oxen being harnessed to a wagon carrying 3 to 4 tons.
Like goats, sheep have narrow upper molar teeth, very different from those of the oxen, and narrow hairy muzzles.
When sculptured decorations were added they frequently took the form of imitations of the actual festoons with which it was usual to ornament altars, or of symbols, such as crania and horns of oxen, referring to the victims sacrificed.
Traffic is carried on principally by means of caravans of camels, horses, asses and oxen.
Perhaps, however, the most interesting are the remains of certain oxen from the Lower Pliocene of Europe and India, which have been described under the sub-generic (or generic) title of Leptobos, and are characterized by the absence of horns in the females.
A law of 1898 authorizes the government to grant concessions on very favourable terms to foreign capitalists willing to promote mining and manufactures in Servia; but in 1910 the number of large industrial establish ' One yutro is the area which two oxen can plough in a day.
There are native names for the plough, so it may be assumed that some form of that implement, worked by oxen, yoked together with a simple straight yoke, was in use in early times.
The chief festival among the Hova, and almost confined to them, was that of the New Year, at which time a kind of sacrificial killing of oxen took place, and a ceremonial bathing, from which the festival took its name of Fandroana (the Bath).
Provisions in Seistan are as a rule sufficient, though sheep and oxen are somewhat poor.
Of this sixteen acres are assigned to the dairy for the cows, and 12 for the oxen and young bullocks.
In Jameson Land, we look for musk oxen and collared lemmings and predatory long-tailed skua, snowy owl and arctic fox.
He sent young men to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice peace offerings of oxen to Jehovah.
The largest wagon drawn by oxen was needed to transport the fish from the Severn to London.
During this time they stole 18 oxen, killed another 21 and wounded many others.
He entered the shrine of E-ninnu with raised head like a bull and sacrificed there faultless oxen and kids.
Only ever had cause to drive a tractor, as his father years before him had only ever driven oxen.
Of course, it may be due to the wild oxen themselves.
The other cattle of Devon, just called Devons, are today a beef breed although they were developed as draft oxen.
Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.