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Definition of Ox

The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female.

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Ox Quotations

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

The ox suffers, the cart complains.
Victor Hugo

I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.
Megan Fox

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
Jaron Lanier

An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.
Daniel Morgan

There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
Nathaniel Smith

I'm as healthy as an ox.
Julie Gold

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.
Erich Honecker

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Ox Translations

ox in Danish is okse
ox in Dutch is os
ox in German is Ochse
ox in Italian is bue
ox in Portuguese is boi
ox in Spanish is buey
ox in Swedish is oxe

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