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† sea-ox Obs.
1. The hippopotamus. Cf. sea-cow.
1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ix. 335 The creatures therein [in the Nile] contained are exceeding strange, as namely sea-horses, sea-oxen, crocodiles [etc.]. Ibid. 344 The sea-oxe being couered with an exceeding hard skinne is shaped in all respects like vnto the land-oxe; saue that in bignes it exceedeth not a calfe of sixe moneths olde. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 328 Some Græcians call him sometimes a Sea-horsse, and sometimes a Sea-oxe. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 202 A hundred Elephants, caparison'd with the skins of Sea-oxen. Ibid., This Besigu beares a bow and quiver, a short sword, and a coat of Sea-oxe. 1791Smellie tr. Buffon (ed. 3) VI. 278.
2. The walrus or morse.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage 626 Neere to New-found-land in 47 deg. is great killing of the Morse or Sea-oxe. |