ox-eyen.

Brit.

/ˈɒksʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˈɑksˌaɪ/

Forms: see ox n. and eye n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ox n., eye n.¹

Etymology: < ox n. + eye n.¹In sense 1, the term originally translated classical Latin buphthalmus (Pliny) < Hellenistic Greek βούϕθαλμον (Dioscorides: see buphthalmos n.), the name of a Mediterranean plant with ‘fennel-like’ leaves; this does not well describe the plant named Buphthalmum by later botanists (see sense 1a), but has been identified with Anacyclus radiatus or the crown daisy Chrysanthemum coronarium; the application of the name to Adonis and Anthemis (see senses 1b, 1d) may represent alternative identifications of the plant referred to by ancient writers. The reason for use in sense 2 is unclear. Many birds so named have bright or prominent dark eyes, often set off by pale plumage; others have a conspicuous black (or black and white) patch in the plumage which some have suggested as a source for the name. Some writers refer to the use of French oeil-de-boeuf as a popular name for small birds such as the wren and goldcrest. Compare oxbird n. With sense 3 compare Hellenistic Greek βούϕθαλμος , a kind of fish. For Old English genitive compounds in oxan- see discussion at ox n. A genitive compound oxes yȝe is also attested in late Middle English as a plant name (in sense 1a).

I. Plants and animals.

a. Any of various central European plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae) with conspicuous yellow-rayed flowers, belonging (or formerly belonging) to the genus Buphthalmum, esp. B. salicifolium and the closely related Telekia speciosa.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > other composite flowers

ox-eyea1400

starwort?a1450

Jupiter's beard1567

goldenrod1568

achillea1597

blue camomile1597

blue daisy1597

cineraria1597

hog's bean1597

jackanapes on horseback1597

sea-starwort1597

sultan flower1629

mouse-ear1696

aster1706

Canada goldenrod1731

ageratum1737

rudbeckia1751

coreopsis1753

melampodium1754

Aaron's rod1760

zinnia1761

Michaelmas daisy1767

China aster1785

New England aster1785

catananche1798

sea-aster1812

cosmea1813

cosmos1813

gazania1813

erigeron1815

gousblom1822

Christmas daisy1829

rhodanthe1834

tassel-flower1836

ligularia1839

old maid1839

mountain daisy1848

purple coneflower1848

acroclinium1852

sea ox-eye1856

thimble-weed1860

helipterum1862

treasure-flower1866

Swan River daisy1873

blanket flower1879

cone-flower1879

blue marguerite1882

Solidago1883

yellow-top1887

Gaillardia1888

gerbera1889

youth and old age1889

pussytoes1892

niggerhead1893

Transvaal daisy1899

Barberton daisy1906

onion grass1909

ursinia1928

Cupid's dart1930

Livingstone daisy1932

a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 24 Butalmon uel butalmos oculus bouis, oxie [v.r. oxeghe].

?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 62 (MED) For to make grene tret..Take bugle, pygle..oxey, [etc.].

1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. G v [Translating Dioscorides] Buphthalmus or oxey..hath leues lyke fenel and a yellowe floure greater then Camomill, lyke vnto an ey, wherupon it hath the name.

c1588 E. Spenser Virgils Gnat 678 Oxeye still greene, and bitter Patience.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 606 The plant which we haue called Buphthalmum, or Oxe eie.

1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. at Oxe eye, in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Oxe eye white, Buphthalmum vulg. True Oxe Eye, Buphthalmum verum.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Ox-eye, Buphthalmum.

1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. 161/2 Bupthalmum [sic]. Ox-Eye... Seed of annuals in border, in April; division of herbaceous perennials in March.

1990 M. E. Epp tr. L. Jelitto & W. Schacht Hardy Herbaceous Perennials (ed. 3) I. 104/2 Buphthalmum L... Oxeye... Two to 7 European species (depending on genus interpretation) related to Inula of showy herbaceous perennials with large yellow daisylike heads.

1997 C. Stace New Flora Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 718 Telekia Baumg.–Yellow Oxeye... Probably best united with Buphthalmum L.

b. A yellow-flowered pheasant's eye of southern Europe, Adonis vernalis (family Ranunculaceae). Also yellow ox-eye.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > delphinium or larkspur

red maytheeOE

brown maythec1450

lark's foota1500

red maidweed1548

consound1578

lark's claw1578

larkspur1578

ox-eye1578

red camomile1578

Adonis1597

lark-heel1597

lark's toes1597

monkshood1597

rose-a-ruby1597

delphinium1666

pheasant's eye1727

red Morocco1760

rocket larkspur1778

blue rocket larkspur1784

bee-larkspur1846

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxxii. 189 This herbe..is called in Latine Buphthalmum and Oculus bouis... This is the right Oxe eye described by Dioscorides.

1900 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 8) 412/2 A. vernalis (Ox-Eye) is a handsome Alpine herb, forming dense tufts..of finely divided leaves in whorls along the stem. Blooming in spring, with large, yellow, Anemone-like flowers.

1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 39 Yellow Ox-eye. From woods and marshes of the Alps and Apennines comes this slender, spreading perennial.

c. Either of two plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae) with conspicuous rayed flowers, both common in Britain, (a) the corn marigold, Chrysanthemum segetum (also yellow ox-eye); (b) the ox-eye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare (see Compounds) (also white ox-eye). Also occasionally: (with distinguishing word) any of several plants closely related to these.

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goldOE

buddle?a1350

great daisya1400

white bottlea1400

bigolda1500

maudlin-wort1552

chrysanthemum1578

ox-eyea1637

whiteweed1642

ox-eye daisy1731

moonflower1787

ox-daisy1813

ox-eyed daisy1817

pyrethrum1837

horse-gowan1842

marguerite1847

maudlin daisy1855

moon daisy1855

pompom1861

moon-penny1866

crown daisy1875

Korean chrysanthemum1877

Paris daisy1882

mum1891

Shasta daisy1901

chrysanth1920

penny-daisy1920

Korean1938

Nippon daisy1939

a1637 B. Jonson Pans Anniv. 30 in Wks. (1640) III Bring Corn-flag, Tulips, and Adonis flower, Faire Oxe-eye, Goldy-locks, and Columbine.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 69/1 A wild Field Marygold..this is also termed an Oxe-Eye if Yellow, and a Wild Daisie if White.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Ox-eye,..also an Herb otherwise call'd Great Margaret, good for Wounds and the King's Evill.

1800 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica II. 898 Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum... Great White Ox-eye.

1800 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica II. 899 Chrysanthemum segetum... Yellow Ox-eye. Corn Marigold.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 831/1 Ox-eye.., also Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum.

1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 204 Her lap full of decapitated oxeyes.

1883 Evangelical Mag. Sept. 395 Now gather one of the large yellow flowers called Corn-Marigold, or yellow Ox-eye.

1956 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 69 371 The Ox-eye was used not only in cases of ‘uterine complaints’.., but also in ‘nervous excitation’.

1986 O. Rackham Hist. Countryside xv. 344 Some churchyards tend to a chalk grassland flora, with oxeye, calamint, quaking-grass, and occasional rarities like man orchid.

1997 C. Stace New Flora Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 735 Leucanthemella Tzvelev–Autumn Oxeye.

d. Any of various plants of the genus Anthemis (chamomiles), which have daisy-like flowers. See also ox-eye chamomile n. at Compounds.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > camomile

camomilea1300

whitewort?c1400

camovynec1550

anthemis1551

morgan1669

Roman chamomile1721

ox-eye1731

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Buphthalmum Buphthalmum; tanaceti minoris folio. C.B. The common Ox-eye, with Leaves like Tansy.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Ox-eye of old Authors, Anthemis.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 831/1 Ox-eye.., also..Anthemis arvensis.

1878 W. M. Hardinge tr. Hermodorus in 19th Cent. Nov. 872 With flox of Phædimus and chamomile—The crinkled oxeye—of Antagoras.

1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xv. 186 Who in England named the field camomile the ‘oxeye’ for its conspicuous disk and marginal rays?

e. Any of several North American plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae), esp. of the genus Heliopsis, with conspicuous radiate flowers.sea ox-eye: see sea n. Compounds 6f.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants

wild sagea1400

yellow devil's-bita1400

white golda1425

cotula1578

golden cudweed1597

golden tuft1597

rattlesnake root1682

Cape tansy?1711

hawkbit1713

ambrosia1731

cabbage tree1735

hog's eye1749

Osteospermum1754

ox-tongue1760

scentless mayweed1800

old man's beard1804

ox-eye1818

echinacea1825

sheep's beard1836

shepherd's beard1840

cat's-ear1848

goatweed1869

silversword1888

khaki bush1907

venidium1937

khaki bos1947

Namaqualand daisy1963

1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 268 Heliopsis..laevis..ox-eye... Tall, resembling the sunflowers.

1828 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. I. 235 Sneezeweed..False Sunflower, Yellow Star, Oxeye [= Helenium autumnale].

1917 Amer. Midland Naturalist 5 121 Heliopsis scabra Dunal. Ox-eye. False sunflower.

1939 National Geographic Mag. Aug. 262/1 Oxeyes..are tall, leafy plants bearing numerous attractive bright-orange flower heads that come into bloom in late summer.

1977 J. B. Moyle & E. W. Moyle Northland Wild Flowers 159/1 Ox-eye (H. helianthoides). Perennial, usually 1 to 3 feet tall, with stiff, erect stems, sunflowerlike heads, and opposite leaves.

a. Chiefly British regional. The great tit, Parus major (also great ox-eye). Also: any of various other tits, or small songbirds such as the chiffchaff, Phylloscopus collybita, the willow warbler, P. trochilus, and (more fully †ox-eye creeper) †the treecreeper, Certhia familiaris (obsolete).

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Certhiidae > certhia familiaris (tree-creeper)

ox-eye1544

tree-creeper1814

tree-climber1879

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus major (great tit)

great titmouse1544

ox-eye1544

tomtit1648

black cap1802

oven's nesta1825

pick-cheesea1825

Tom-noup1832

saw-sharpener1885

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Phylloscopus > species trochilus (willow-warbler)

willow-wren1766

wood-wren1794

feather-poke1831

ground-wren1837

willow-warbler1846

feather-bed1854

mealy-mouth1885

sally picker1885

ox-eye1888

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Phylloscopus > species collybita (chiff-chaff)

chiffchaffc1780

lesser pettichaps1843

fig-bird1854

bank-jug1881

sally picker1885

ox-eye1888

1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. G5^v Primum parum, Angli uocant the great titmouse or the great oxei.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The ox ee cryit tueit.

1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1703 An Oxeye, or creeper, Certhia.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xi. 104 Oxeys or great Titmise, feed (as ordinary Titmise do) upon caterpillers, blossoms of Trees, bark worms and flies.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §4. 147 Those other Birds..a little bigger then a Wren called Ox-eye-creeper.

1796 Statist. Accts. Scotl. XVII. 250 Blue titmouse... Ox-eye.

1817 Sporting Mag. 50 142 A bird of the oxeye species has this year built its nest in the valve of a pump.

1885 C. Swainson Provincial Names Brit. Birds 33 British Cole Titmouse... Black ox-eye (Forfar).

1885 C. Swainson Provincial Names Brit. Birds 33 Blue Titmouse... Blue ox-eye (Forfar).

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Ox-eye, only name for both the chiff-chaff and the willow warbler.

1909 Daily Chron. 20 July 7/3 The ring-dove and the little chiming ox-eye have called you to hush.

1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 205/2 Ox-eye.., the great tit, Parus major.

1973 Times 17 Feb. 14/7 Great tits..are often called ‘ox-eyes’.

b. Now North American regional. Any of several waders, esp. the dunlin, Calidris alpina, the least sandpiper, C. minutilla, the semipalmated sandpiper, C. pusilla, and the grey plover, Pluvialis squatarola. Cf. oxbird n. 1.Quot. ?a1475, assigned to sense 2a by Middle Eng. Dict., is placed here on the grounds that a wader is more likely to be a suitable bird for the table (cf. quot. 1705).

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris alpinus (dunlin)

stint1519

dunlin1531

oxbirda1547

sea-lark1602

purre1611

ox-eye1612

jack snipe1664

spar1668

pickerel1684

sand laverock1694

sandy laverock1710

sea-snipe1767

plover's page1771

sand lark1771

red-back1813

red-backed sandpiper1813

ebb-sleeper1837

oxybird1887

simpleton1890

plover's provider1892

sand-runner1894

?a1475 Noble Bk. Cookry in Middle Eng. Dict. at Oxe The seconde course..wodcok, plouer..Oxene.]

1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 15 In winter there are great plenty of..Oxeies, Parrats, and Pigeons.

1649 Perfect Descr. Virginia (1837) 17 Ducks..Widgeons..Dottrells..Oxeyes.

1705 R. Beverley Hist. & Present State Virginia (1947) 153 Cranes, Curlews, Herons, Snipes, Woodcocks, Saurers, Ox-eyes, Plover, Larks, and many other good Birds for the Table that they have not yet found a Name for.

1806 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 4 A wild duck, ox-eyes, rails, fieldfares.

1844 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. ii. 244 Wilson's Sandpiper. Tringa Pusilla... This little sandpiper commonly known as..the Ox-eye, from the size and brilliancy of its eye, is one of the most abundant species.

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 193 Dunlin..Ox bird or Ox eye (Essex; Kent).

1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 115 There was..the duck in all those varieties so well known to modern sportsmen, the canvas-back, the red head, the mallard, the widgeon, the dottrell, the oxeye.

1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know xvii. 251 The least sandpipers, peeps, ox-eyes or stints, as they are variously called, are only about the size of sparrows.

1951 Amer. Speech 30 177 The term oxeye, applied to several shore birds, apparently refers to the full, round eye, made more prominent by a white ring in many species.

3. Any of various edible marine fishes. Now spec. (more fully ox-eye herring, ox-eye tarpon): an Indo-Pacific game fish, Megalops cyprinoides (family Megalopidae).The identity of the Brazilian fish in quot. a1642 is uncertain. It seems unlikely to be the bogue ( Boops boops: see quot. 1895¹), which, although its Latin name means ‘ox-eye’, is found in the Mediterranean and north-east Atlantic; it could perhaps be an amberjack (genus Seriola), now called olho-de-boi (‘ox-eye’) in Portuguese.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Boops

boce1589

ox-eyea1642

cockerel1676

bogue1862

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Elopiformes > member of family Megalopidae

ox-eyea1642

tarpon1699

megalops1834

savanilla1884

sabalo1889

silver king1889

megalopine1890

1867 A. G. Randall tr. Extract Hist. Old or Lower Calif. in J. R. Browne & A. S. Taylor Sketch Settlement & Explor. Lower Calif. (1869) 169 In the gulf of California the ojon has been caught. This singular flat-fish..has in the middle of the highest part of the back an eye the size as that of an ox. This fish should, with more propriety, be called boeps (ox-eye), than that which Linnæus designates by this name in the genus sparus.]

a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) vi. 534/1 [Upon the coast of Brazil:] The Ox-Eye, is like the Tunney, an excellent Fish; and looks like the Eye of an Ox.

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Ox-eye.., a sparoid fish, the bogue.

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Ox-eye.., (Austral.) an elopoid fish (Megalops cyprinoides) resembling the tarpon.

1965 Austral. Encycl. IV. 84A (caption) Ox-eye herring, Megalops cyprinoides.

1985 A. Wheeler World Encycl. Fishes 245/2 The ox-eye tarpon is the Indo-Pacific relative of the Atlantic tarpon.

1988 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 28 Aug. 38/3 In recent weeks anglers have encountered one of the most spectacular sport fish available—the ox-eye herring or tarpon.

II. Technical uses.

†a. Nautical. A small cloud regarded as portending a violent storm, esp. off the coast of Africa. Cf. bull's-eye n. 10. Obsolete.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > small cloud > portending storm

ox-eye1598

bull's-eye1849

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xciii. 168/1 A certayne cloude, which in shew seemeth no bigger then a mans fist, and therefore by the Portingals it is called Olho de Boy, (or Oxe eye).

1705 C. Purshall Ess. Mechanism Macrocosm 172 Those Dreadful Storms on the Coasts of Guinea, which the Seamen call the Ox Eye, from their Beginning; because at first it seems no bigger than an Ox's-Eye.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 513 Ox-eye, a small cloud, or weather-gall, seen on the coast of Africa, which presages a severe storm.

†b. = ox-eye cup n. at Compounds. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun]

chalicec825

napeOE

copc950

fullOE

cupc1000

canOE

shalec1075

scalec1230

maselin?a1300

mazer1311

richardine1352

dish1381

fiole1382

pece1383

phialc1384

gobletc1400

bowl-cup1420

chalice-cup1420

crusec1420

mazer-cup1434

goddard1439

stoup1452

bicker1459

cowl1476

tankard1485

stop1489

hanapa1513

skull1513

Maudlin cup1544

Magdalene cup?a1549

mazer bowl1562

skew1567

shell1577

godet1580

mazard1584

bousing-can1590

cushion1594

glove1609

rumkin1636

Maudlin pot1638

Pimlico1654

mazer dish1656

mug1664

tumbler1664

souce1688

streaker1694

ox-eye1703

false-cup1708

tankard-cup1745

poculum1846

phiale1867

tumbler-cup1900

stem-cup1915

sippy cup1986

1703 First Speech spoken at Publick Act in University Misc. (1713) 5 Abest Creedus, quia bibit Ox-Eyes cum Bedelli uxore.

a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 425/2 Oxford. All Souls... Their silver cups at the college are called ox-eyes, and an ox-eye of wormwood was a favourite draught there.

1859 G. T. Robertson & J. R. Green Oxf. during Last Cent. 65 At Corpus Christi were drinking-cups and glasses, which, from their shape, were called ox-eyes.

†c. Nautical. A small glass bull's eye (bull's-eye n. 2). Obsolete.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in deck > for communication, light, or air > hemispherical glass

bull's-eye1825

ox-eye1867

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 513 Ox-eye,..the smaller glass bull's eyes.

d. = ox-eye window n. at Compounds.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > round windows

roundel1574

oeil-de-boeuf1728

marigold window1736

rose window1738

wheel-window1821

rose1823

rosette1836

rosace1837

bull's-eye1842

Catherine-wheel window1848

ox-eye1875

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1586/1 Ox-eye (Building), an oval dormer-window.

1988 C. McWilliam Case of Knives (1989) ix. 78 Seen from the outside, the building is an upright creamy tube, with a sloped roof, whose window is a single ox-eye.

†e. A small concave mirror (see quot. 1890). Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > other mirrors

perspective glass1570

side mirror1769

index-glass1773

Claude Lorraine glass1792

anamorphoscopea1884

magnetic mirror1884

ox-eye1890

busybody1892

rear mirror1896

triple mirror1907

three-way mirror1964

two-way mirror1967

1890 Cent. Dict. Oxeye,..4. pl. Small concave mirrors made, especially in Nuremberg, of glass.

III. Literal uses.

5. The eye of an ox; an eye resembling or likened to that of an ox, esp. in respect of size.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > eye like that of ox

ox-eye1688

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of

sueta1325

oxblood?1440

fix-faxc1460

ox-head1474

nache?1523

ox-hoof1601

ox-pith1604

flank-piece1611

ox-eye1688

web1778

razorback1844

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > by size, shape, etc.

pinkany?1578

pig's eye1658

pigsney1664

ox-eye1688

pig-eye1714

sparkler1746

gooseberry-eye1789

eyelet1799

gooseberry-orb1803

pop-eye1828

swine eye1836

pink-eye1897

bug-eyes1905

eOE Laws of Ine (Corpus Cambr. 173) lix. 116 Oxan eage bið v p[æninga] weorð.]

1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes 258 If she had not had that sort of eyes, which..some call ox-eyes; for hers were swelled much beyond the size of human eyes.

1857 J. C. Maxwell in Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. (1973) 28 58 The size of the cod and the ox eye is nearly the same.

1869 C. Gibbon Robin Gray viii His ox eyes were rolling more stolidly.

1892 M. Wynman My Flirtations i A sallow, undersized Italian, with handsome ox-eyes.

1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 76/1 Koch of Wollstein was messing about with little drops of the watery humor of ox-eyes, growing threads of microbes in them.

1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon viii. 178 ‘See here, my lord,’ said Kirk, his ox-eyes mild but implacable.

1994 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 12 June (Sunday Review) 9 The Hongkong Examinations Authority sometimes finds itself having to shop for innards like pig's hearts and ox eyes.

Compounds

† ox-eye arch n. Obsolete rare (apparently) a Gothic or acutely pointed arch.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > other types of arch

bowOE

craba1387

cove1511

triumphal arch (arc)a1566

straight arch1663

pointed arch1688

rough arch1693

jack-arch1700

oxi1700

raking arch1711

flat arch1715

scheme-arch1725

counter-arch1726

ox-eye arch1736

surbased dome1763

ogee1800

rising arch1809

sub-arch1811

deaf arch1815

four-centred arch1815

mixed arch1815

Tudor arch1815

camber1823

lancet arch1823

invert1827

platband1828

pier arch1835

ogive1841

scoinson arch1842

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1736 F. Drake Eboracum ii. ii. 532 In the Anglo-Norman age, all their arches..were nearer to the Roman taste, than the acuter oxey arch.

ox-eye bean n. now historical a tropical American vine, Mucuna urens (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)); the seed of this.

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1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica 295 Zoophthalmum 1... The Ox-eye Bean... This plant is very common in the inland parts of Jamaica, and climbs to the top of the tallest trees in the wood.

1892 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) 269/2 Ox-eye Bean, another name for the horse-eye bean, or Mucuna urens of Decandolle.

1920 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica IV. 52 M[ucuna] urens... Ox Eye Bean. Rare; in fl. Sept. and Oct.

1961 F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk xvi. 376 This is a closely related vine; its fruit is the ‘Horse-eye Bean’, sometimes called donkey-eye, and formerly ox-eye.]

ox-eye chamomile n. yellow chamomile, Anthemis tinctoria.

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1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Ox-eye chamomile, Anthemis tinctoria.

1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 32 A. tinctoria, ‘Dyer's’ or ‘Ox-eye Chamomile’, yellow.

† ox-eye creeper n. Obsolete see sense 2a.

ox-eye cup n. now chiefly historical a kind of drinking cup with two circular handles, traditionally used in certain Oxford colleges.

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1938 E. A. Jones Catal. Plate Queen's Coll. Oxf. Introd. p. ix Rarer than..tankards..are the plain gourd-shaped cups with two small ring handles called ‘plates’ at this College, ‘ox-eye cups’ at Corpus Christi and St John's Colleges, and ‘tuns’ at Magdalen College.

1998 I. Pickford Antique Silver xi. 114 The ox-eye or college cup of the seventeenth century.

ox-eye daisy n. (a) a plant of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae), Leucanthemum vulgare, with stiff stems bearing large flowers with yellow centres and white rays, native to Europe and introduced as a weed in North America and elsewhere (also called moon daisy); (with distinguishing word) any of several related plants; (b) U.S. regional black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta.

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buddle?a1350

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bigolda1500

maudlin-wort1552

chrysanthemum1578

ox-eyea1637

whiteweed1642

ox-eye daisy1731

moonflower1787

ox-daisy1813

ox-eyed daisy1817

pyrethrum1837

horse-gowan1842

marguerite1847

maudlin daisy1855

moon daisy1855

pompom1861

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Korean chrysanthemum1877

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1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Leucanthemum Leucanthemum vulgare Tourn. Common Ox-eye Daizy.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Leucanthemum Leucanthemum folii absinthii Alpinum Ciassi. Alpine Ox-eye Daizy, with a Wormwood Leaf.

1796 J. Aikin & A. L. Barbauld Evenings at Home VI. xxvi. 4 One of the great ox-eye daisies in the corn.

1858 A. Irvine Illustr. Handbk. Brit. Plants 52 The Goat's-beard, the large Ox-eye Daisy, and the Corn Chamomile generally flower before or about midsummer.

1894 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 7 92 Rudbeckia hirta.., ox-eye daisy, somewhat general in Mass[achusetts].

1909 L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Agric. II. 441/2 In changeable winters many of the plants are heaved out, and their places are later taken by oxeye daisies..and other weeds.

1991 Times 20 May 16/8 The first ox-eye daisies are out among long grass.

ox-eye tomtit n. (probably) the great tit, Parus major (see sense 2b).

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1904 N.E.D. (at cited word) Ox-eye tom-tit.

ox-eye window n. a small oval window; = oeil-de-boeuf n. 1.

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1753 in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 253 Three Ox eye windows one over each door.

1999 Daily Mail (Nexis) 13 Mar. 55 The opulent turn-of-the-century buildings with their oxeye windows and mansard roofs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	ox-eye
释义	ox-eyen. Brit. /ˈɒksʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈɑksˌaɪ/ Forms: see ox n. and eye n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ox n., eye n.¹ Etymology: < ox n. + eye n.¹In sense 1, the term originally translated classical Latin buphthalmus (Pliny) < Hellenistic Greek βούϕθαλμον (Dioscorides: see buphthalmos n.), the name of a Mediterranean plant with ‘fennel-like’ leaves; this does not well describe the plant named Buphthalmum by later botanists (see sense 1a), but has been identified with Anacyclus radiatus or the crown daisy Chrysanthemum coronarium; the application of the name to Adonis and Anthemis (see senses 1b, 1d) may represent alternative identifications of the plant referred to by ancient writers. The reason for use in sense 2 is unclear. Many birds so named have bright or prominent dark eyes, often set off by pale plumage; others have a conspicuous black (or black and white) patch in the plumage which some have suggested as a source for the name. Some writers refer to the use of French oeil-de-boeuf as a popular name for small birds such as the wren and goldcrest. Compare oxbird n. With sense 3 compare Hellenistic Greek βούϕθαλμος , a kind of fish. For Old English genitive compounds in oxan- see discussion at ox n. A genitive compound oxes yȝe is also attested in late Middle English as a plant name (in sense 1a). I. Plants and animals. 1. a. Any of various central European plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae) with conspicuous yellow-rayed flowers, belonging (or formerly belonging) to the genus Buphthalmum, esp. B. salicifolium and the closely related Telekia speciosa. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > other composite flowers ox-eyea1400 starwort?a1450 Jupiter's beard1567 goldenrod1568 achillea1597 blue camomile1597 blue daisy1597 cineraria1597 hog's bean1597 jackanapes on horseback1597 sea-starwort1597 sultan flower1629 mouse-ear1696 aster1706 Canada goldenrod1731 ageratum1737 rudbeckia1751 coreopsis1753 melampodium1754 Aaron's rod1760 zinnia1761 Michaelmas daisy1767 China aster1785 New England aster1785 catananche1798 sea-aster1812 cosmea1813 cosmos1813 gazania1813 erigeron1815 gousblom1822 Christmas daisy1829 rhodanthe1834 tassel-flower1836 ligularia1839 old maid1839 mountain daisy1848 purple coneflower1848 acroclinium1852 sea ox-eye1856 thimble-weed1860 helipterum1862 treasure-flower1866 Swan River daisy1873 blanket flower1879 cone-flower1879 blue marguerite1882 Solidago1883 yellow-top1887 Gaillardia1888 gerbera1889 youth and old age1889 pussytoes1892 niggerhead1893 Transvaal daisy1899 Barberton daisy1906 onion grass1909 ursinia1928 Cupid's dart1930 Livingstone daisy1932 a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 24 Butalmon uel butalmos oculus bouis, oxie [v.r. oxeghe]. ?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 62 (MED) For to make grene tret..Take bugle, pygle..oxey, [etc.]. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. G v [Translating Dioscorides] Buphthalmus or oxey..hath leues lyke fenel and a yellowe floure greater then Camomill, lyke vnto an ey, wherupon it hath the name. c1588 E. Spenser Virgils Gnat 678 Oxeye still greene, and bitter Patience. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 606 The plant which we haue called Buphthalmum, or Oxe eie. 1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. at Oxe eye, in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Oxe eye white, Buphthalmum vulg. True Oxe Eye, Buphthalmum verum. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Ox-eye, Buphthalmum. 1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. 161/2 Bupthalmum [sic]. Ox-Eye... Seed of annuals in border, in April; division of herbaceous perennials in March. 1990 M. E. Epp tr. L. Jelitto & W. Schacht Hardy Herbaceous Perennials (ed. 3) I. 104/2 Buphthalmum L... Oxeye... Two to 7 European species (depending on genus interpretation) related to Inula of showy herbaceous perennials with large yellow daisylike heads. 1997 C. Stace New Flora Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 718 Telekia Baumg.–Yellow Oxeye... Probably best united with Buphthalmum L. b. A yellow-flowered pheasant's eye of southern Europe, Adonis vernalis (family Ranunculaceae). Also yellow ox-eye. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > delphinium or larkspur red maytheeOE brown maythec1450 lark's foota1500 red maidweed1548 consound1578 lark's claw1578 larkspur1578 ox-eye1578 red camomile1578 Adonis1597 lark-heel1597 lark's toes1597 monkshood1597 rose-a-ruby1597 delphinium1666 pheasant's eye1727 red Morocco1760 rocket larkspur1778 blue rocket larkspur1784 bee-larkspur1846 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxxii. 189 This herbe..is called in Latine Buphthalmum and Oculus bouis... This is the right Oxe eye described by Dioscorides. 1900 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 8) 412/2 A. vernalis (Ox-Eye) is a handsome Alpine herb, forming dense tufts..of finely divided leaves in whorls along the stem. Blooming in spring, with large, yellow, Anemone-like flowers. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 39 Yellow Ox-eye. From woods and marshes of the Alps and Apennines comes this slender, spreading perennial. c. Either of two plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae) with conspicuous rayed flowers, both common in Britain, (a) the corn marigold, Chrysanthemum segetum (also yellow ox-eye); (b) the ox-eye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare (see Compounds) (also white ox-eye). Also occasionally: (with distinguishing word) any of several plants closely related to these. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > chrysanthemums goldOE buddle?a1350 great daisya1400 white bottlea1400 bigolda1500 maudlin-wort1552 chrysanthemum1578 ox-eyea1637 whiteweed1642 ox-eye daisy1731 moonflower1787 ox-daisy1813 ox-eyed daisy1817 pyrethrum1837 horse-gowan1842 marguerite1847 maudlin daisy1855 moon daisy1855 pompom1861 moon-penny1866 crown daisy1875 Korean chrysanthemum1877 Paris daisy1882 mum1891 Shasta daisy1901 chrysanth1920 penny-daisy1920 Korean1938 Nippon daisy1939 a1637 B. Jonson Pans Anniv. 30 in Wks. (1640) III Bring Corn-flag, Tulips, and Adonis flower, Faire Oxe-eye, Goldy-locks, and Columbine. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 69/1 A wild Field Marygold..this is also termed an Oxe-Eye if Yellow, and a Wild Daisie if White. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Ox-eye,..also an Herb otherwise call'd Great Margaret, good for Wounds and the King's Evill. 1800 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica II. 898 Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum... Great White Ox-eye. 1800 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica II. 899 Chrysanthemum segetum... Yellow Ox-eye. Corn Marigold. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 831/1 Ox-eye.., also Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum. 1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 204 Her lap full of decapitated oxeyes. 1883 Evangelical Mag. Sept. 395 Now gather one of the large yellow flowers called Corn-Marigold, or yellow Ox-eye. 1956 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 69 371 The Ox-eye was used not only in cases of ‘uterine complaints’.., but also in ‘nervous excitation’. 1986 O. Rackham Hist. Countryside xv. 344 Some churchyards tend to a chalk grassland flora, with oxeye, calamint, quaking-grass, and occasional rarities like man orchid. 1997 C. Stace New Flora Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 735 Leucanthemella Tzvelev–Autumn Oxeye. d. Any of various plants of the genus Anthemis (chamomiles), which have daisy-like flowers. See also ox-eye chamomile n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > camomile camomilea1300 whitewort?c1400 camovynec1550 anthemis1551 morgan1669 Roman chamomile1721 ox-eye1731 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Buphthalmum Buphthalmum; tanaceti minoris folio. C.B. The common Ox-eye, with Leaves like Tansy. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Ox-eye of old Authors, Anthemis. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 831/1 Ox-eye.., also..Anthemis arvensis. 1878 W. M. Hardinge tr. Hermodorus in 19th Cent. Nov. 872 With flox of Phædimus and chamomile—The crinkled oxeye—of Antagoras. 1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xv. 186 Who in England named the field camomile the ‘oxeye’ for its conspicuous disk and marginal rays? e. Any of several North American plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae), esp. of the genus Heliopsis, with conspicuous radiate flowers.sea ox-eye: see sea n. Compounds 6f. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants wild sagea1400 yellow devil's-bita1400 white golda1425 cotula1578 golden cudweed1597 golden tuft1597 rattlesnake root1682 Cape tansy?1711 hawkbit1713 ambrosia1731 cabbage tree1735 hog's eye1749 Osteospermum1754 ox-tongue1760 scentless mayweed1800 old man's beard1804 ox-eye1818 echinacea1825 sheep's beard1836 shepherd's beard1840 cat's-ear1848 goatweed1869 silversword1888 khaki bush1907 venidium1937 khaki bos1947 Namaqualand daisy1963 1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 268 Heliopsis..laevis..ox-eye... Tall, resembling the sunflowers. 1828 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. I. 235 Sneezeweed..False Sunflower, Yellow Star, Oxeye [= Helenium autumnale]. 1917 Amer. Midland Naturalist 5 121 Heliopsis scabra Dunal. Ox-eye. False sunflower. 1939 National Geographic Mag. Aug. 262/1 Oxeyes..are tall, leafy plants bearing numerous attractive bright-orange flower heads that come into bloom in late summer. 1977 J. B. Moyle & E. W. Moyle Northland Wild Flowers 159/1 Ox-eye (H. helianthoides). Perennial, usually 1 to 3 feet tall, with stiff, erect stems, sunflowerlike heads, and opposite leaves. 2. a. Chiefly British regional. The great tit, Parus major (also great ox-eye). Also: any of various other tits, or small songbirds such as the chiffchaff, Phylloscopus collybita, the willow warbler, P. trochilus, and (more fully †ox-eye creeper) †the treecreeper, Certhia familiaris (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Certhiidae > certhia familiaris (tree-creeper) ox-eye1544 tree-creeper1814 tree-climber1879 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus major (great tit) great titmouse1544 ox-eye1544 tomtit1648 black cap1802 oven's nesta1825 pick-cheesea1825 Tom-noup1832 saw-sharpener1885 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Phylloscopus > species trochilus (willow-warbler) willow-wren1766 wood-wren1794 feather-poke1831 ground-wren1837 willow-warbler1846 feather-bed1854 mealy-mouth1885 sally picker1885 ox-eye1888 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Phylloscopus > species collybita (chiff-chaff) chiffchaffc1780 lesser pettichaps1843 fig-bird1854 bank-jug1881 sally picker1885 ox-eye1888 1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. G5^v Primum parum, Angli uocant the great titmouse or the great oxei. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The ox ee cryit tueit. 1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1703 An Oxeye, or creeper, Certhia. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xi. 104 Oxeys or great Titmise, feed (as ordinary Titmise do) upon caterpillers, blossoms of Trees, bark worms and flies. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §4. 147 Those other Birds..a little bigger then a Wren called Ox-eye-creeper. 1796 Statist. Accts. Scotl. XVII. 250 Blue titmouse... Ox-eye. 1817 Sporting Mag. 50 142 A bird of the oxeye species has this year built its nest in the valve of a pump. 1885 C. Swainson Provincial Names Brit. Birds 33 British Cole Titmouse... Black ox-eye (Forfar). 1885 C. Swainson Provincial Names Brit. Birds 33 Blue Titmouse... Blue ox-eye (Forfar). 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Ox-eye, only name for both the chiff-chaff and the willow warbler. 1909 Daily Chron. 20 July 7/3 The ring-dove and the little chiming ox-eye have called you to hush. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 205/2 Ox-eye.., the great tit, Parus major. 1973 Times 17 Feb. 14/7 Great tits..are often called ‘ox-eyes’. b. Now North American regional. Any of several waders, esp. the dunlin, Calidris alpina, the least sandpiper, C. minutilla, the semipalmated sandpiper, C. pusilla, and the grey plover, Pluvialis squatarola. Cf. oxbird n. 1.Quot. ?a1475, assigned to sense 2a by Middle Eng. Dict., is placed here on the grounds that a wader is more likely to be a suitable bird for the table (cf. quot. 1705). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris alpinus (dunlin) stint1519 dunlin1531 oxbirda1547 sea-lark1602 purre1611 ox-eye1612 jack snipe1664 spar1668 pickerel1684 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 sea-snipe1767 plover's page1771 sand lark1771 red-back1813 red-backed sandpiper1813 ebb-sleeper1837 oxybird1887 simpleton1890 plover's provider1892 sand-runner1894 ?a1475 Noble Bk. Cookry in Middle Eng. Dict. at Oxe The seconde course..wodcok, plouer..Oxene.] 1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 15 In winter there are great plenty of..Oxeies, Parrats, and Pigeons. 1649 Perfect Descr. Virginia (1837) 17 Ducks..Widgeons..Dottrells..Oxeyes. 1705 R. Beverley Hist. & Present State Virginia (1947) 153 Cranes, Curlews, Herons, Snipes, Woodcocks, Saurers, Ox-eyes, Plover, Larks, and many other good Birds for the Table that they have not yet found a Name for. 1806 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 4 A wild duck, ox-eyes, rails, fieldfares. 1844 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. ii. 244 Wilson's Sandpiper. Tringa Pusilla... This little sandpiper commonly known as..the Ox-eye, from the size and brilliancy of its eye, is one of the most abundant species. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 193 Dunlin..Ox bird or Ox eye (Essex; Kent). 1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 115 There was..the duck in all those varieties so well known to modern sportsmen, the canvas-back, the red head, the mallard, the widgeon, the dottrell, the oxeye. 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know xvii. 251 The least sandpipers, peeps, ox-eyes or stints, as they are variously called, are only about the size of sparrows. 1951 Amer. Speech 30 177 The term oxeye, applied to several shore birds, apparently refers to the full, round eye, made more prominent by a white ring in many species. 3. Any of various edible marine fishes. Now spec. (more fully ox-eye herring, ox-eye tarpon): an Indo-Pacific game fish, Megalops cyprinoides (family Megalopidae).The identity of the Brazilian fish in quot. a1642 is uncertain. It seems unlikely to be the bogue ( Boops boops: see quot. 1895¹), which, although its Latin name means ‘ox-eye’, is found in the Mediterranean and north-east Atlantic; it could perhaps be an amberjack (genus Seriola), now called olho-de-boi (‘ox-eye’) in Portuguese. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Boops boce1589 ox-eyea1642 cockerel1676 bogue1862 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Elopiformes > member of family Megalopidae ox-eyea1642 tarpon1699 megalops1834 savanilla1884 sabalo1889 silver king1889 megalopine1890 1867 A. G. Randall tr. Extract Hist. Old or Lower Calif. in J. R. Browne & A. S. Taylor Sketch Settlement & Explor. Lower Calif. (1869) 169 In the gulf of California the ojon has been caught. This singular flat-fish..has in the middle of the highest part of the back an eye the size as that of an ox. This fish should, with more propriety, be called boeps (ox-eye), than that which Linnæus designates by this name in the genus sparus.] a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) vi. 534/1 [Upon the coast of Brazil:] The Ox-Eye, is like the Tunney, an excellent Fish; and looks like the Eye of an Ox. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Ox-eye.., a sparoid fish, the bogue. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Ox-eye.., (Austral.) an elopoid fish (Megalops cyprinoides) resembling the tarpon. 1965 Austral. Encycl. IV. 84A (caption) Ox-eye herring, Megalops cyprinoides. 1985 A. Wheeler World Encycl. Fishes 245/2 The ox-eye tarpon is the Indo-Pacific relative of the Atlantic tarpon. 1988 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 28 Aug. 38/3 In recent weeks anglers have encountered one of the most spectacular sport fish available—the ox-eye herring or tarpon. II. Technical uses. 4. †a. Nautical. A small cloud regarded as portending a violent storm, esp. off the coast of Africa. Cf. bull's-eye n. 10. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > small cloud > portending storm ox-eye1598 bull's-eye1849 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xciii. 168/1 A certayne cloude, which in shew seemeth no bigger then a mans fist, and therefore by the Portingals it is called Olho de Boy, (or Oxe eye). 1705 C. Purshall Ess. Mechanism Macrocosm 172 Those Dreadful Storms on the Coasts of Guinea, which the Seamen call the Ox Eye, from their Beginning; because at first it seems no bigger than an Ox's-Eye. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 513 Ox-eye, a small cloud, or weather-gall, seen on the coast of Africa, which presages a severe storm. †b. = ox-eye cup n. at Compounds. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] chalicec825 napeOE copc950 fullOE cupc1000 canOE shalec1075 scalec1230 maselin?a1300 mazer1311 richardine1352 dish1381 fiole1382 pece1383 phialc1384 gobletc1400 bowl-cup1420 chalice-cup1420 crusec1420 mazer-cup1434 goddard1439 stoup1452 bicker1459 cowl1476 tankard1485 stop1489 hanapa1513 skull1513 Maudlin cup1544 Magdalene cup?a1549 mazer bowl1562 skew1567 shell1577 godet1580 mazard1584 bousing-can1590 cushion1594 glove1609 rumkin1636 Maudlin pot1638 Pimlico1654 mazer dish1656 mug1664 tumbler1664 souce1688 streaker1694 ox-eye1703 false-cup1708 tankard-cup1745 poculum1846 phiale1867 tumbler-cup1900 stem-cup1915 sippy cup1986 1703 First Speech spoken at Publick Act in University Misc. (1713) 5 Abest Creedus, quia bibit Ox-Eyes cum Bedelli uxore. a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 425/2 Oxford. All Souls... Their silver cups at the college are called ox-eyes, and an ox-eye of wormwood was a favourite draught there. 1859 G. T. Robertson & J. R. Green Oxf. during Last Cent. 65 At Corpus Christi were drinking-cups and glasses, which, from their shape, were called ox-eyes. †c. Nautical. A small glass bull's eye (bull's-eye n. 2). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in deck > for communication, light, or air > hemispherical glass bull's-eye1825 ox-eye1867 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 513 Ox-eye,..the smaller glass bull's eyes. d. = ox-eye window n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > round windows roundel1574 oeil-de-boeuf1728 marigold window1736 rose window1738 wheel-window1821 rose1823 rosette1836 rosace1837 bull's-eye1842 Catherine-wheel window1848 ox-eye1875 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1586/1 Ox-eye (Building), an oval dormer-window. 1988 C. McWilliam Case of Knives (1989) ix. 78 Seen from the outside, the building is an upright creamy tube, with a sloped roof, whose window is a single ox-eye. †e. A small concave mirror (see quot. 1890). Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > other mirrors perspective glass1570 side mirror1769 index-glass1773 Claude Lorraine glass1792 anamorphoscopea1884 magnetic mirror1884 ox-eye1890 busybody1892 rear mirror1896 triple mirror1907 three-way mirror1964 two-way mirror1967 1890 Cent. Dict. Oxeye,..4. pl. Small concave mirrors made, especially in Nuremberg, of glass. III. Literal uses. 5. The eye of an ox; an eye resembling or likened to that of an ox, esp. in respect of size. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > eye like that of ox ox-eye1688 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of sueta1325 oxblood?1440 fix-faxc1460 ox-head1474 nache?1523 ox-hoof1601 ox-pith1604 flank-piece1611 ox-eye1688 web1778 razorback1844 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > by size, shape, etc. pinkany?1578 pig's eye1658 pigsney1664 ox-eye1688 pig-eye1714 sparkler1746 gooseberry-eye1789 eyelet1799 gooseberry-orb1803 pop-eye1828 swine eye1836 pink-eye1897 bug-eyes1905 eOE Laws of Ine (Corpus Cambr. 173) lix. 116 Oxan eage bið v p[æninga] weorð.] 1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes 258 If she had not had that sort of eyes, which..some call ox-eyes; for hers were swelled much beyond the size of human eyes. 1857 J. C. Maxwell in Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. (1973) 28 58 The size of the cod and the ox eye is nearly the same. 1869 C. Gibbon Robin Gray viii His ox eyes were rolling more stolidly. 1892 M. Wynman My Flirtations i A sallow, undersized Italian, with handsome ox-eyes. 1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 76/1 Koch of Wollstein was messing about with little drops of the watery humor of ox-eyes, growing threads of microbes in them. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon viii. 178 ‘See here, my lord,’ said Kirk, his ox-eyes mild but implacable. 1994 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 12 June (Sunday Review) 9 The Hongkong Examinations Authority sometimes finds itself having to shop for innards like pig's hearts and ox eyes. Compounds † ox-eye arch n. Obsolete rare (apparently) a Gothic or acutely pointed arch. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > other types of arch bowOE craba1387 cove1511 triumphal arch (arc)a1566 straight arch1663 pointed arch1688 rough arch1693 jack-arch1700 oxi1700 raking arch1711 flat arch1715 scheme-arch1725 counter-arch1726 ox-eye arch1736 surbased dome1763 ogee1800 rising arch1809 sub-arch1811 deaf arch1815 four-centred arch1815 mixed arch1815 Tudor arch1815 camber1823 lancet arch1823 invert1827 platband1828 pier arch1835 ogive1841 scoinson arch1842 segment1845 skew arch1845 drop-arch1848 equilateral arch1848 lancet1848 rear arch1848 straining-arch1848 tierceron1851 shouldered arch1853 archlet1862 segment-arch1887 1736 F. Drake Eboracum ii. ii. 532 In the Anglo-Norman age, all their arches..were nearer to the Roman taste, than the acuter oxey arch. ox-eye bean n. now historical a tropical American vine, Mucuna urens (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)); the seed of this. ΚΠ 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica 295 Zoophthalmum 1... The Ox-eye Bean... This plant is very common in the inland parts of Jamaica, and climbs to the top of the tallest trees in the wood. 1892 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) 269/2 Ox-eye Bean, another name for the horse-eye bean, or Mucuna urens of Decandolle. 1920 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica IV. 52 M[ucuna] urens... Ox Eye Bean. Rare; in fl. Sept. and Oct. 1961 F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk xvi. 376 This is a closely related vine; its fruit is the ‘Horse-eye Bean’, sometimes called donkey-eye, and formerly ox-eye.] ox-eye chamomile n. yellow chamomile, Anthemis tinctoria. ΚΠ 1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Ox-eye chamomile, Anthemis tinctoria. 1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 32 A. tinctoria, ‘Dyer's’ or ‘Ox-eye Chamomile’, yellow. † ox-eye creeper n. Obsolete see sense 2a. ox-eye cup n. now chiefly historical a kind of drinking cup with two circular handles, traditionally used in certain Oxford colleges. ΚΠ 1938 E. A. Jones Catal. Plate Queen's Coll. Oxf. Introd. p. ix Rarer than..tankards..are the plain gourd-shaped cups with two small ring handles called ‘plates’ at this College, ‘ox-eye cups’ at Corpus Christi and St John's Colleges, and ‘tuns’ at Magdalen College. 1998 I. Pickford Antique Silver xi. 114 The ox-eye or college cup of the seventeenth century. ox-eye daisy n. (a) a plant of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae), Leucanthemum vulgare, with stiff stems bearing large flowers with yellow centres and white rays, native to Europe and introduced as a weed in North America and elsewhere (also called moon daisy); (with distinguishing word) any of several related plants; (b) U.S. regional black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > chrysanthemums goldOE buddle?a1350 great daisya1400 white bottlea1400 bigolda1500 maudlin-wort1552 chrysanthemum1578 ox-eyea1637 whiteweed1642 ox-eye daisy1731 moonflower1787 ox-daisy1813 ox-eyed daisy1817 pyrethrum1837 horse-gowan1842 marguerite1847 maudlin daisy1855 moon daisy1855 pompom1861 moon-penny1866 crown daisy1875 Korean chrysanthemum1877 Paris daisy1882 mum1891 Shasta daisy1901 chrysanth1920 penny-daisy1920 Korean1938 Nippon daisy1939 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Leucanthemum Leucanthemum vulgare Tourn. Common Ox-eye Daizy. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Leucanthemum Leucanthemum folii absinthii Alpinum Ciassi. Alpine Ox-eye Daizy, with a Wormwood Leaf. 1796 J. Aikin & A. L. Barbauld Evenings at Home VI. xxvi. 4 One of the great ox-eye daisies in the corn. 1858 A. Irvine Illustr. Handbk. Brit. Plants 52 The Goat's-beard, the large Ox-eye Daisy, and the Corn Chamomile generally flower before or about midsummer. 1894 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 7 92 Rudbeckia hirta.., ox-eye daisy, somewhat general in Mass[achusetts]. 1909 L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Agric. II. 441/2 In changeable winters many of the plants are heaved out, and their places are later taken by oxeye daisies..and other weeds. 1991 Times 20 May 16/8 The first ox-eye daisies are out among long grass. ox-eye tomtit n. (probably) the great tit, Parus major (see sense 2b). ΚΠ 1904 N.E.D. (at cited word) Ox-eye tom-tit. ox-eye window n. a small oval window; = oeil-de-boeuf n. 1. ΚΠ 1753 in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 253 Three Ox eye windows one over each door. 1999 Daily Mail (Nexis) 13 Mar. 55 The opulent turn-of-the-century buildings with their oxeye windows and mansard roofs. 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