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One of a series of bases containing the amido and the isonitroso groups united to the same carbon atom.

, obtained indirectly by the action of cyanogen on aniline, and regarded as an anilide of oxamic acid; -- called also phenyl oxamide.

A salt of oxanilic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, oxalic acid and aniline; -- used to designate an acid obtained in white crystalline scales by heating these substances together.

a white crystalline substance, resembling oxanilamide, obtained by heating aniline oxalate, and regarded as a double anilide of oxalic acid; -- called also diphenyl oxamide.

A poisonous bulbous plant (Buphane toxicaria) of the Cape of Good Hope.

The dunlin.

The cow blackbird. [Local, U. S.]

A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.

The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy.

Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox. Burton.

The gadfly of cattle.

Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England. Oxford movement. See Tractarianism. -- Oxford School, a name given to those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the so-called Oxford "Tracts for the Times," issued the period 1833 -- 1841. Shipley. -- Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, l…

See Bovate.

A goad for driving oxen.

Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead. Dost make a mummer of me, oxhead Marston.

Same as Bear's-foot.

A large heart-shaped cherry, either black, red, or white.

The skin of an ox, or leather made from it.

See Oxide.