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[OOZE.] ows-ell, subst. [OWSE.) A bog, a quagmire, a slough. ows-en, s. pl . [Ox.] Oxen. ( Scotch .) "May be pasture enough for plough-horses and owsen, and forty or fifty cows. " -Scott : Rob Roy , ch. xxvi. ows-er, s. [OWSE.) Tanner's ooze. "It dazzles thy dull owlish sight." *ow-ther, conj . [EITHER.] Observer, No. 102. Owl-Ism, s. [English owl , s.; -ism.] Stupidity. ( Carlyle : Past and Present , bk. ii., ch. xvii.) *owl-, *owl-iě, a. [English owl , s.;-y.] Pur- blind. "Reason's sin-bleared owlie sight." ox ( pl . ox-en), s. [A. S. oxa (pl. oxan ); cogn. with Dut. os; Icel. uxi , oxi (pl. yxn , Öxn ); Dan.oxe (pl.oxer); Sw. oxe ; Ger. ochse, ochs (pl. ochsen); O. H. Ger. oh so ; Goth. auhsa, auhsus; Wel. ych (pl. ychen); Sansc. ukshan an ox, a bull; from uksh to sprinkle. ( Skeat.)] Sylvester: The Imposture, 535. *owly-eyed, adj . Owl-eyed. ( Sidney : Arcadia , p. 303.) own, *aghen, *awen, *awin, *awyn, *owen, *owne, a . [A. S. ágen own, orig. the pa. par. of ágan to owe, to po e [OWE, v.]; cogn. with Icel. eigin =one's own, orig. the pa, par. of eiga to own; Dan. & Sw.egen one's own; Goth.aigin=property, orig. pa. par. of aigan to po e ; Ger. eigen .] 1. Belonging to; po e ed; proper to; peculiar, domestic; not foreign; implying ownership, often with emphasis. It always follows a po e ive pro noun, or a noun in the po e ive case; as, my own, his own, their own, John's own, . "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house."- Matt . xiii. 57. 2. Fixed, settled, or determined by a person for himself; as, Name your own price. 3. Used to impart a certain amount of tenderne to the expre ion. "Tell me, mine own." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, v. 3. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; 1. Zoology : (1) The castrated male of Bos taurus when arrived at maturity. (BULL, STEER.] (2) The popular name for the genus Bos (q. v.). It has been known from remote antiquity, and in the East po e ed, and in India still po e es, a sacred character. They have been broadly divided into two groups-the humped, with Bos indicus , and the straight-backed, with B. taurus as a type. The domestic oxen consist of a great number of different breeds. "It is impo ible to overestimate the services rendered by the to the human race. Living, it plows its land and reaps his harvest, carries his goods or himself, guards his property, and even fights his battles, while its udders, which under domestication have been enormously enlarged, yield him at all seasons a copius supply of milk. When dead, its flesh forms a chief source of animal food; its bones are ground into manure, or turned into numer. ous articles of use or ornament; its skin is made into leather, its ears and hoofs into glue; its hair is mixed with mortar; and its horns are cut and molded into spoons and other useful articles." -J. Gibson: in Encyc. Brit . (ed. 9th), iii. 246. sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. 2. Script.: Heb. baqar is the common ox; and as early as the times of Abraham (Gen. xii. 16), if not even those of Lamech (iv 20), was a domestic animal. The wild ox (Heb. theo ) of Deut. xiv. 6, the wild bull of Isa. li. 20, may have been the oryx, or a buffalo. To have the black ox tread on one's foot : To meet with sorrow or misfortune; to be unfortunate. "The black ox trod on the fairy foot of my cousin Fan." -Leigh Hunt: Autobiography , ch. iv. ox-bile, s. Pharm.: The fresh bile of the ox purified is used when there is deficient bile in the patient, as shown by the pale color of the alvine ejections. Of use also in some kinds of dyspepsia. Called also oxgall. ex-bird, s. Ornith.: Tringa variabilis. ( Newton.) ox-bow, 8. 1. Husbandry: The bent piece of wood which pa es under the neck of the ox, the upper ends pa ing through the yoke. [Ox-YOKE.] "With ox- bowes and ox-yokes and other things mo." Tu er: Husbandrie, p. 36. 2. Arch .: An oval dormer-window. 3. Naut .: The bend or reach of a river. ( Smyth .) ox-boy, s. A boy employed in tending cattle. ( Tu er . Husbandrie , p. 143.)