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ure-ox|ˈjʊərɒks|
[ad. MHG. ûr-ochse (G. urochs urochs, auerochs aurochs), or f. ure n.3 + ox.]
= urus.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 722 Their large bodies and manes..it is not vnfit to attribute..also to the Vre-Oxe. Ibid. 723 In Malonia neer Lituania..those Vre-oxen are kept as it were in parkes and chases. 1611Cotgr., Ure, the huge-bodied, bulch-backed, short-horned, and red-eyed wild Oxe, called the Vre-oxe. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 23 Bull, Taurus... Hereto may be referred the Bison; and Vre-oxe.
1887tr. Hahn's Wand. Plants & Anim. 495 The ure-ox and wisent of the German forests. 1888E. D. Gerard Land beyond Forest: Transylvania II. 11 Whoever..let himself be lured into quaffing mead from her ure-ox drinking horn, was doomed. |