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coxn.1

Brit. /kɒks/, U.S. /kɑks/
Etymology: Abbreviation of coxswain n.
colloquial.
= coxswain n. 2b.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > helmsman or pilot > coxswain
coxswain1327
cox1869
1869 J. C. Tinne Internat. Training (1923) 9 Turned and rowed hard down to Whitchurch, with the exception of one unintentional easy halfway, owing to the fact of the cox. mistaking the way we wished to go.
1881 Rowing, Steering & Coaching on Cam 29 It may be laid down as a general statement, that a cox. can't shout too much.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat xv. 253 Then ‘cox’ threw both rudder lines overboard, and burst into tears.
1955 Times 13 Aug. 8/7 Walter, one time cox of his college eight and collector of three rudders.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Coxn.2

Brit. /kɒks/, U.S. /kɑks/
Etymology: < the name of Richard Cox (c1776–1845, amateur fruit-grower.
Used in the possessive of a variety of orange pippin, or an apple of this variety; also elliptical.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pome-paradise1601
French pippin1629
gillyflower1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
calville1691
passe-pomme1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
Sturmer Pippin1831
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Macoun1924
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
pippin?1435
pomewater?1435
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
sweeting1530
pomeroyal1534
renneta1568
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
russeting1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
reinette1582
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pomeroy1600
short-start1600
jenneting1601
pome-paradise1601
russet coat1602
John apple1604
honey apple1611
honeymeal1611
musk apple1611
short-shank1611
spice apple1611
French pippin1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
renneting1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
reinetting1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
white-wining1676
russet1686
calville1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
musk1708
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
wine apple1802
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
wine-sap1826
Jonathan1831
Sturmer Pippin1831
rusty-coat1843
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Cornish gilliflowerc1850
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
nutmeg pippin1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Melba apple1928
Melba1933
Mutsu1951
Newtown1953
discovery1964
1860 R. Hogg Fruit Man. 5 Cox's Orange Pippin... Medium sized, roundish-ovate, and regular in its outline... A first-rate dessert apple.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 945/2 Some [apples] of English origin have acquired almost universal celebrity; for instance, the Golden Pippin, Ribston Pippin,..Blenheim Pippin, etc.; and recently Cox's Orange Pippin has been brought into notice.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Aug. 2/1Cox's orange pippin’ and ‘Blenheim orange’, are certain to repay liberally for careful cultivation.
1920 E. A. Bunyard Handbk. Hardy Fruits 43 Cox's Orange..Dessert, November to March..Raised in 1825, by Mr. Cox, a retired brewer of Colnbrook Lawn, near Slough, and introduced by Mr. Charles Turner, about 1850.
1934 New Statesman 15 Dec. 901/1 He can obtain a Cox from the fruit shop at Victoria Station.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 12 Jan. 17/1 Cox's remain a good sale at firm values.
1962 Times 22 Oct. 11/4 An apple, even if it is a Cox's Orange, is not worth any great sum of money.
1962 Times 25 Oct. 7/3 Trays of Coxes grown by Mr. G. N. Horne.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

COXn.3

Brit. /kɒks/, U.S. /kɑks/
Origin: Formed within English, by clikpping or sortening. Etymon: cyclooxygenase n.
Etymology: < c- and -ox- (in cyclooxygenase n.).
Biochemistry and Medicine.
The enzyme cyclooxygenase. Frequently with distinguishing number designating its main isoenzymes: COX-1 n. a constitutive form, involved in physiological prostaglandin production. COX-2 n. a form that is inducible by pro-inflammatory cytokines and certain other substances.
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1982 Internat. Jrnl. Immunopharmacol. 4 351 Cyclooxygenase (COX) from sheep seminal vesicles.
1996 New Scientist 30 Nov. 30/2 The drugs work by blocking the action of two enzymes, called cyclooxygenase 1 and 2 (COX-1 and COX-2).
2005 G. Critser Generation Rx i. 82 They are converted to those two functions by an enzyme system known as cyclooxygenase, COX.

Compounds

COX-2 inhibitor n. any of a subclass of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs that selectively inhibit COX-2, thereby reducing some of the side-effects, esp. gastrointestinal irritation and bleeding, associated with non-selective types of such drug.
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1994 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91 3228/1 Furthermore, NS-398, a selective COX-2 inhibitor, and indomethacin, a nonselective COX-1/COX-2 inhibitor, blocked proinflammatory PG synthesis in the air pouch.
1998 Mt. Democrat (Placerville, Ca.) 30 Mar. a8/1 This drug is one of a brand new class of arthritis medications known as COX-2 inhibitors.
2004 N.Y. Times 14 Nov. 1/2 The review..raises..questions about an entire class of..new painkillers called COX-2 inhibitors.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

coxv.

Etymology: < cox n.1
colloquial.
transitive. To act as cox or coxswain to (a boat); also intransitive.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > steering > steer [verb (intransitive)] > as coxwain
cox1920
coxswain1962
1920 Notes on Coxing 21 A coxswain..must decide whether he is out just to ‘steer’ or really to ‘cox’.

Derivatives

ˈcoxing n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > steering > [noun] > as coxwain
coxing1881
1881 Rowing, Steering & Coaching on Cam 23 Though coxing does not require so much physical exertion as rowing, it requires more mental effort.
1939 G. O. Nickalls & P. C. Mallam Rowing vii. 116 Weight is the governing factor which decides whether or not you are suitable for coxing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

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