单词 | ox-hoof |
释义 | ox-hoofn. 1. The hoof of an ox. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of sueta1325 oxblood?1440 fix-faxc1460 ox-head1474 nache?1523 ox-hoof1601 ox-pith1604 flank-piece1611 ox-eye1688 web1778 razorback1844 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. xxxvii When they see their Oxe hoofes surbatted and worne too neere the quick with overmuch travell. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1023 They set in the utmost void places Ox-hoofs, Hogs-hoofs, or old cast things that are hollow. a1800 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey xxii, in Wks. (1835–7) XIV. 232 The huge ox-hoof, Which..Ulysses at thy bounteous hand received. 1891 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 23 55 The old ruts are remarkably preserved, as well as the prints of the ox-hoofs made more than eighty years ago. 1977 Monumenta Nipponica 32 344/2 The chief of the fiends..is pictured with the head of an ox, cloven ox-hooves and human hands. 1994 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 22 Jan. 3 d All bauhinias have two-lobed leaves that are shaped like the print of an ox hoof. ΚΠ 1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 550 The leaves of Caulotretus..and various Bauhinias are used in Brazil under the name of Unha de Boy, or Oxhoof, as mucilaginous remedies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601 |
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