ox (redirected from oxen)

ox: see cattle.

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ox

Domesticated form of large bovid (species Bos taurus) that once moved in herds across North America and Europe (where they have disappeared) and Asia and Africa (where some still exist in the wild). The docile castrated male is used as a draft animal in many countries. Oxen are used for food in some areas. The term is also applied to a castrated male of any cattle breed. See also aurochs, yak.

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ox

1. an adult castrated male of any domesticated species of cattle, esp Bos taurus, used for draught work and meat

2. any bovine mammal, esp any of the domestic cattle

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ox

exhibits fellow-feeling for comrades. [Medieval Animal Symbolism: White, 77–78]

See : Kindness

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(language, tool)

Ox - A preprocessor, written by Kurt Bischoff of Iowa State University, that extends and generalises the syntax and semantics of Yacc, Lex, and C. Ox's support of LALR1 grammars generalises yacc in the way that attribute grammars generalise context-free grammars. It augments Yacc and Lex specifications with definitions of synthesised and inherited attributes written in C syntax. Ox checks these specifications for consistency and completeness, and generates a program that builds and decorates attributed parse trees. Ox accepts a most general class of attribute grammars. The user may specify postdecoration traversals for easy ordering of side effects such as code generation. Latest version: G1.01, as of 1993-11-14. ftp://ftp.cs.iastate.edu/pub/ox/. Info: <ox-request@cs.iastate.edu>. ["User Manual for Ox: An Attribute-Grammar Compiling System based on Yacc, Lex and C", K.M. Bischoff, TR92-30, Iowa State U, Dec 1992].