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ox-horn|ˈɒkshɔːn|
[f. ox + horn.]
1. A horn of an ox. (Sometimes used as a drinking-vessel.)
[c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xxxi. 776 Com se deofol..and hæfde ænne oxan horn on hande.] 1601Holland Pliny I. 402 In the deep sea they light on certain little trees branched and full of boughes, in colour of an Ox horne. 1626Bacon Sylva §549 Hartshorn is of a fat and clammy substance, and it may be, Ox-horn would do the like [yield mushrooms]. 1868Blackmore Lorna D. xxii, He took the large ox-horn of our quarantine-apple cider.
2. A name of the Black Olive or Olive-bark (Bucida Buceras) of Jamaica, the wood of which is not liable to the attacks of insects.
1866Treas. Bot. 831/1.
3. ox-horn cockle, a bivalve mollusc, the heart-cockle, Isocardia cor. |