OX, noun plural oxen. pronoun ox'n.
The male of the bovine genus of quadrupeds, castrated and grown to his size or nearly so. The young male is called in America a steer. The same animal not castrated is called a bull. These distinctions are well established with us in regard to domestic animals of this genus. When we speak of wild animals of this kind, ox is sometimes applied both to the male and female, and in zoology, the same practice exists in regard to the domestic animals. Sop in common usage, a pair of bulls yoked may be sometimes called oxen. We never apply the name ox to the cow or female of the domestic kind. Oxen in the plural may comprehend both the male and female.
OX'ALATE, noun [See Oxalic.] In chimistry, a salt formed by a combination of the oxalic acid with a base.
OXAL'IC, adjective [Gr. sorrel, , acid.]
Pertaining to sorrel. The oxalic acid is the acid of sorrel.
OX'BANE, noun A plant, buphonos.
OX'FLY, noun A fly hatched under the skin of cattle.
OX'GANG, noun [ox and gang, going.] In ancient laws, as much land as an ox can plow in a year; said to be fifteen acres, or as others allege, twenty acres.
OX'HEAL, noun A plant.
OXIOD'IC, adjective Pertaining to or consisting of the compound of oxygen and iodine.
OX'LIKE, adjective [ox and like.] Resembling an ox.
OX'LIP, noun A plant, the cowslip.
OX'STALL, noun A stall or stand for oxen.
OXTONGUE, noun ox'tung. A plant of the genus Picris.
OX'YCRATE, noun [Gr. acid, and to mix.]
A mixture of water and vinegar. [Little used.]
OX'YD, noun [Gr. acid, sharp, vinegar.]
In chimistry, a substance formed by the combination of a portion of oxygen with some base; or a substance combined with oxygen, without being in the state of an acid.
OXYDABIL'ITY, noun The capacity of being converted into an oxyd.
OX'YDABLE, adjective Capable of being converted into an oxyd.
OX'YDATE, verb transitive To convert into an oxyd, as metals and other substances, by combination with oxygen. It differs from acidify, to make acid, or to convert into an acid, as in oxydation the acid that enters into combination is not sufficient to form an acid.
OX'YDATED, participle passive Converted into an oxyd.
OX'YDATING, participle present tense Converting into an oxyd.
OXYDA'TION, noun The operation or process of converting into an oxyd, as metals or other substances, by combining with them a certain portion of oxygen.
OX'YDIZE, verb transitive To oxydate, which see.
OX'YDIZED, participle passive Oxydated.
OX'YDIZEMENT, noun Oxydation.
OX'YDIZING, participle present tense Oxydating. [Oxydize and its derivatives are now more generally used than oxydate, though there seems to be no ground for the preference.]
OX'YGEN, noun [Gr. acid, and to generate.]
In chimistry, oxygen or oxygen gas is an element or substance so named from its property of generating acids; it is the respirable part of air, vital air, or the basis of it; it is called the acidifying principle, and the principle or support of combustion. Modern experiments, however, prove that it is not necessary in all cases to combustion or to acidity. oxygen is a permanently elastic fluid, invisible, inodorous, and a little heavier than atmospheric air. In union with azote or nitrogen, it forms atmospheric air, of which it constitutes about a fifth part. Water contains about 85% of it, and it exists in most vegetable and animal products, acids, salts and oxyds. It forms 50% of silex, 47 of alumin, 28 of lime, 40 of magnesia, 17 of potash, and 25 of soda.
OX'YGENATE, verb transitive To unite or cause to combine with oxygen, without the evolution of heat or light; to acidify by oxygen.
OX'YGENATED, participle passive United with oxygen.
OX'YGENATING, participle present tense Uniting with oxygen.
OX'YGENIZABLE, adjective Capable of being oxygenized.
OX'YGENIZE, verb transitive To oxygenate, which see.
OX'YGENIZED, participle passive United with oxygen.
OX'YGENIZEMENT, noun Oxygenation.
OX'YGENIZING, participle present tense Oxygenating.
OXYG'ENOUS, adjective Pertaining to oxygen, or obtained from it.
OX'YGON, noun [Gr. sharp, and an angle.]
A triangle having three acute angles.
OX'YMEL, noun [Gr. acid, and honey.]
A mixture of vinegar and honey.
OX'YTONE, adjective [Gr. sharp, and tone.]
Having an acute sound.
OX'YTONE, noun An acute sound.