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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A coxswain.
  2. v. To act as coxswain or serve as coxswain for.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A coxcomb.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew.
  2. v. To act as coxswain.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew
  2. n. either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin
  3. v. act as the coxswain, in a boat race

Examples

  • “I saw this movie a few weeks ago, mostly because dr. cox is in it.”

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  • “It is thought to inhibit an enzyme called cox-2 which is also the target of anti-inflammatory drugs.”

    ITN Headlines

  • “In the new research, published in the journal, Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, patients were taking either a high dose of lumiracoxib, a type of drug known as a cox-2 inhibitor, high dose of ibuprofen or naproxen, which are both non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs known as NSAIDs.”

    The Down-Side of Pain Killers | Impact Lab

  • “Aspirin is an inhibitor of a lot of these inflammations, specifically something known as cox-2 (ph), which a lot of these medications target, aspirin does as well.”

    CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2009

  • “The cox is the person who faces forward, when all the rowers are seated backward.”

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  • “The reason this is happening is that -- look, these ads have been really controversial, particularly when it comes to the painkillers called cox-2 inhibitors, which were later shown to be linked to cardiac problems.”

    CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2005

  • “And a decision on labeling for arthritis medicines called cox-2 inhibitors is now under consideration by the FDA.”

    CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2005

  • “Others include painkillers known as cox-2 inhibitors, as well as beta-blockers that are used frequently to treat high blood pressure and heart problems.”

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  • “Wictory and Prince Allbut to come and Pick a bit with you, becos There is nothink for them wen they comes, and the Kitchin-range is chok'd up with the sut as has falln down the last fore yeers, and no poletry but too old cox, which is two tuff to be agreerble; But, praps, we Can git sum cold meet from the in, wot as bin left at the farmers 'markut-dinner; and may I ask you my lord without fear of your”

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841

  • “I was two stone lighter than the then coxswain ( "cox") and interchanged us, and thereafter my destiny was fixed; I eventually rose to be cox of the first eight, and while I did not exactly steer them to victory (in fact, in the year of my coxswainship we did, formally, just about as badly as it is possible to do!), I nevertheless feel we put up a good fight.”

    Anthony J. Leggett - Autobiography

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