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An ox (pl.: oxen), also known as a bullock (in British, Australian, and Indian English), [1] is a large bovine, trained and used as a draft animal. Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle, because castration inhibits testosterone and aggression, which makes the males docile and safer to work with.
A castrated male steer, occasionally a female or in some areas an intact bull that is trained and kept for draft or riding purposes is called an ox (plural oxen); ox may also be used to refer to some carcass products from any adult cattle, such as ox-hide, ox-blood, oxtail, or ox-liver. [3] A springer is a cow or heifer that is close to calving ...
"Olly olly oxen free" is a catchphrase or truce term used in children's games such as hide and seek, capture the flag, and kick the can to indicate that players who are hiding can come out into the open without losing the game or that the position of the sides in a game has changed [1] (as in which side is on the field or which side is at bat or "up" in baseball or kickball); alternatively ...
Ox: low, moo Parrot: squawk, talk White-capped Parrot Rose-ringed Parakeet imitating human speech: Peacock: ... "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" References
Feeling like 2021 could already use a re-do? Well, you’re in luck! This Friday—February 12, 2021—is the Chinese New Year. Celebrated at the second new moon following the Winter Solstice ...
Ox (1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021) ... What the Trump tariffs could mean for America's beloved pickup truck. Finance. Time. Farmers fear more pain from Trump's trade war.
The earliest attestation of the use of either x or o to indicate kisses identified by the Oxford English Dictionary appears in the English novellist Florence Montgomery's 1878 book Seaforth, which mentions "This letter [...] ends with the inevitable row of kisses,—sometimes expressed by × × × × ×, and sometimes by o o o o o o, according to the taste of the young scribbler".
The Lunar New Year, also known as the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, begins Friday. But celebrations will be muted amid the COVID-19 pandemic.