Ox"bow` (?), n. A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U,
and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing
through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a
river.
Ox"eye` (?), n. [Ox + eye.] 1. (Bot.) (a) The oxeye daisy. See under
Daisy. (b) The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis). (c) A genus of
composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major)
and the blue titmouse (P. cœruleus). [Prov. Eng.] (b) The dunlin. (c) A
fish; the bogue, or box.
Creeping oxeye (Bot.) a West Indian composite plant (Wedelia carnosa).
-- Seaside oxeye (Bot.), a West Indian composite shrub (Borrichia
arborescens).
Ox"*eyed` (?), a. Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox. Burton.
Ox"fly` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The gadfly of cattle.
Ox"ford (?), a. Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford,
England.
Oxford movement. See Tractarianism. -- Oxford School, a name given to
those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the
so-called Oxford "Tracts for the Times," issued the period 1833 --
1841. Shipley. -- Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, laced on the instep, and
usually covering the foot nearly to the ankle.
Ox"gang` (?), n. [Ox + gang, n., 1.] (O. Eng. Law) See Bovate.
Ox"goad` (?), n. A goad for driving oxen.
Ox"head` (?), n. [Cf. Hogshead.] Literally, the head of an ox (emblem
of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead.
Dost make a mummer of me, oxhead?
Marston.
Ox"heal` (?), n. (Bot.) Same as Bear's-foot.
Ox"heart` (?), n. A large heart- shaped cherry, either black, red, or
white.
Ox"hide` (?), n. 1. The skin of an ox, or leather made from it.