List of Old English Words in the OED/OX

Old English	sb	English
Ox	n	The adult castrated male of the genus Bos, used chiefly as a draft animal. 2. any member of the bovine family. 3. informal: a clumsy, stupid fellow.
Ox	phr	"Dumb as an Ox" - slow and slow-moving as an ox.
Ox	phr	"He Has an Ox on his Tongue" - the oldest coins in Greece had the impression of an ox. Hence a bribe for silence was "He Has an Ox on his Tongue".
Ox	phr	"Make an Ox Of" - make a lackey of. 2. make a beast of burden of.
Ox	phr	"Make an Ox Out of a Fly" - treat a minor problem as if it were a major disaster. 2. make a mountain out of a mole hill
Ox	phr	"Man Must Plow with Such Oxen as He Has" - one must make the most of what he has; necessity is the mother of invention.
Ox	phr	"Ox in the Ditch" - an illusion to the urgency and difficulty of extracting an ox from a ditch in which it has become mired. 2. this is a big problem; there is unavoidable or demanding work ahead. 3. also: 'Ox in the Pit'
Ox	phr	"Play the Giddy Ox" - act the fool.
Ox	phr	"The Black Ox Has Trod on his Foot" - he/she has suffered adversity, misfortune.
Ox-bane	n	Plant harmful to cattle (Buphane toxicara).
Oxbow	n	A semi-circular loop or ox-bow bend in a river; hence the land included within this. 2. a u-shaped collar on an ox-yoke.
Oxbird	n	The dunlin. 2. the sunderling. 3. an african weaverbird.
Oxbow blood	n	A color considered to be the dark side of red. It resembles burgundy, but has more purple and dark brown hues.
Oxcart	n	A cart drawn by oxen.
Oxen	n	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.
Ox-eye daisy	n	Any of various plants of the daisy family with conspicuous rayed flowers.
Ox-eyed	adj	Having large, full, calm eyes like those of an ox.
Ox-feather	n	(Humorous) the 'horn' as the symbol of cuckoldry.
Oxfly	n	The gadfly of cattle
Oxford	n	A ford where oxen cross.
Oxford English	n	English as spoken (refined and cultured)at Oxford University
Oxfordish	n	Jargon and cant of Oxford.
Oxford spelling	n	English spelling used in Oxford publications, this being the usual British spelling wth the letter 'z' used instead of 's' in words like 'organization' and as a suffix 'our' rather than 'or' in colour etc.
Oxgang	vb	An area of land that could be plowed by an ox in a year; approximately fifteen acres.
Ox-goad	n	A goad for driving oxen.
Ox-god	n	Apis, the sacred God of the Egyptian.
Oxhead	n	The head of an ox; an emblem of cuckoldom. 3. a dolt, blockhead; a mentally unalert person.
Oxheart	n	A large heart-shaped cherry.
Oxherd	n	One who herds oxen.
Ox-hide	n	Skin of an ox.
Ox-house	n	A stall or shed for oxen.
Ox-hunger	n	Bulimy.
Oxish	adj	Resembling an ox in some aspect or other.
Oxishly	adv	In a manner like that of an ox.
Oxless	adj	Lacking or without oxen.
Ox-like	adj	Like an ox: strong, enduring. 2. stupiid, clumsy, slow-minded.
Ox-lip	n	Flowering herb, hybrid between cowslip and primrose.
Oxter	n	A person's armpit.
Ox-tung	n	any of the various plants having rough, tongue shaped leaves, as the European Alkanet or Bugloss. 2. a short broad sword.
Oxy	adj	Of or belonging to an ox.