bovate (bovat)

[ The full husband-land, or virgate, was composed of two bovates , or oxgangs, the bovate or oxgang being thus the eighth of the hide or carucate. Seebohm, Eng. Vil. Com., p. 61. Manifestly the bovate or oxgang represented the tillage, not of an ox-team, but of one ox of the team, that is, it was the share of the tilled land appropriated to the owner of one of the eight a ociated oxen contributed to the coöperative eight-ox plough. N. and Q. , 7th ser., II. 481. Boveæ (bō'vē-ē), n. pl . [NL., Bos ( Bov- ) + -ee .] A division of Bovida , practically equivalent to the genus Bos in a large sense, or to the modern subfamily Bovinæ . Bovey coal. See coal. Bovichthyidæ (bō-vik-thi'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., II. n. One of the Bovida .