reemn.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 712 We haue shewed already..that Reem in Hæbrew signifieth a Vnicorne.

1719 E. Young Paraphr. Job in Wks. (1757) I. 215 Will the tall Reem, which knows no Lord but Me, Low at the crib, and ask an alms of thee?

1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile V. 89 Some authors..have made the reem, or unicorn, to be of the deer or antelope kind, that is, of a genus whose very character is fear and weakness, very opposite to the qualities by which the reem is described in scripture.

1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. (at cited word) From the fact that the reëm is classed in scripture with bulls or bullocks..it has been concluded that he was of the bovine species, and probably the buffalo or wild ox.

1886 W. Houghton in Academy 24 Apr. 292 The identification of the Hebrew reêm with the wild ox (Bos primigenius) is one of the most certain of all Bible animal names.

1931 Times 18 Mar. 12/4 Authority is all in favour of the Arabian oryx being identical with the reem, wild-ox, or unicorn.

1934 Jewish Q. Rev. 24 414 Reem is a miraculous creature, a prodigious animal of which only one male and one female remain perpetually, else the world could not resist its strength.

2000 Harvard Theol. Rev. 93 315 God rescued the young shepherd, after he had been lifted aloft on the massive horns of a beast known as the reem.