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The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female. All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field. Ps. viii. 7.

A half-castrated male animal.

A castrated bull. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

A castrated man or beast.

To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).

To spay; to castrate. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.

A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off. [Prov. Eng.]

Castrated. [Obs.] "Unpaved eunuch." Shak.

A castrated ram.