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Hoffmeier suggests that the burial of the ox was a sacrifice to placate a deity and protect its residents.

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  1. noun An adult castrated bull of the genus Bos, especially B. taurus, used chiefly as a draft animal.
  2. noun A bovine mammal.

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  • What we called the ox-flies were the most troublesome. —  The Bark Covered House
  • Hoffmeier suggests that the burial of the ox was a sacrifice to placate a deity and protect its residents. —  Egyptology News
  • I wish everyone the best in the Year of the Ox. In fact, the ox is the sign of prosperity through fortitude and hard work, so let's hope this is a sign of good things to come in the new year. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • New year, it's the year of the ox - 2009 is year of the ox - according to the Chinese calendar, the ox is an animal that brings prosperity through hard work. —  MAKE Magazine
  • According to the Chinese calendar, the ox is an animal that brings prosperity through hard work: —  Building Feedly
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ox:   oxen
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  1. Middle English, from Old English oxa; see uks-en- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English oxe (plural oxen), from Anglo-Saxon oxa (plural oxan) = Old Saxon *ohso = OFries. oxa = Middle Dutch osse, Dutch os = Middle Low German Low German osse = Old High German ohso, Middle High German ohse, German ochse, ochs = Icelandic oxi, uxi = Swedish Danish oxe = Goth, auhsa, auhsus, an ox: an old Aryan word, like cow and steer, though not, like these, found in Greek and L.; = Welsh ych, an ox, = Sanskrit ukshan, an ox, bull; referred by some, as ‘impregnator,’ to Sanskrit √ uksh, sprinkle; by others to Sanskrit √ uksh, increase, wax, = English wax, q. v. The noun ox, plural oxen, is notable as being the only one still having in familiar use the old plural in -en (Anglo-Saxon -an), the plurals eyne, hosen, and peasen, though of Anglo-Saxon origin, being obsolete or archaic, and children, brethren, kine, and shoon, in which the plural in -en (-n, -ne) appears first in Middle English, being all (except children) archaic, or at least (as brethren) confined to a limited and non-vernacular use.
 

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