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  • English Word Oxeye Definition A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) and the blue titmouse (P. coeruleus).
  • English Word Oxeye Definition The dunlin.
  • English Word Oxeye Definition A fish; the bogue, or box.
  • English Word Oxeyed Definition Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox.
  • English Word Oxfly Definition The gadfly of cattle.
  • English Word Oxford Definition Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.
  • English Word Oxgang Definition See Bovate.
  • English Word Oxgoad Definition A goad for driving oxen.
  • English Word Oxhead Definition Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead.
  • English Word Oxheal Definition Same as Bear's-foot.
  • English Word Oxheart Definition A large heart-shaped cherry, either black, red, or white.
  • English Word Oxhide Definition The skin of an ox, or leather made from it.
  • English Word Oxhide Definition A measure of land. See 3d Hide.
  • English Word Oxid Definition See Oxide.
  • English Word Oxidability Definition Capability of being converted into an oxide.
  • English Word Oxidable Definition Capable of being converted into an oxide.
  • English Word Oxidate Definition To oxidize.
  • English Word Oxidated Definition of Oxidate
  • English Word Oxidating Definition of Oxidate
  • English Word Oxidation Definition The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.
  • English Word Oxidator Definition An oxidizer.
  • English Word Oxidator Definition A contrivance for causing a current of air to impinge on the flame of the Argand lamp; -- called also oxygenator.
  • English Word Oxide Definition A binary compound of oxygen with an atom or radical, or a compound which is regarded as binary; as, iron oxide, ethyl oxide, nitrogen oxide, etc.
  • English Word Oxidizable Definition Capable of being oxidized.
  • English Word Oxidize Definition To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent.
  • English Word Oxidize Definition To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen to; as, to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid.
  • English Word Oxidize Definition To remove hydrogen from (anything), as by the action of oxygen; as, to oxidize alcohol so as to form aldehyde.
  • English Word Oxidize Definition To subject to the action of oxygen or of an oxidizing agent, so as to bring to a higher grade, as an -ous compound to an -ic compound; as, to oxidize mercurous chloride to mercuric chloride.
  • English Word Oxidized Definition of Oxidize
  • English Word Oxidizement Definition Oxidation.