Chapter Oxacid to OxYhæmacyanin of O by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Oxamide
(Ox*am"ide) n, [Oxalic + amide.] (Chem.) A white crystalline neutral substance (C₂O₂(NH₂)₂) obtained by treating ethyl oxalate with ammonia. It is the acid amide of oxalic acid. Formerly called also oxalamide.

Oxamidine
(Ox*am"i*dine) n. [Oxygen + amido + -ine.] (Chem.) One of a series of bases containing the amido and the isonitroso groups united to the same carbon atom.

Oxanilamide
(Ox`a*nil*am"ide) n. [Oxanilic + amide.] (Chem.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly by the action of cyanogen on aniline, and regarded as an anilide of oxamic acid; — called also phenyl oxamide.

Oxanilate
(Ox*an"i*late) n. (Chem.) A salt of oxanilic acid.

Oxanilic
(Ox`an*il"ic) a. [Oxalic + aniline.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, oxalic acid and aniline; — used to designate an acid obtained in white crystalline scales by heating these substances together.

Oxanilide
(Ox*an"i*lide) n. [Oxalic + aniline + amide.] (Chem.) A white crystalline substance, resembling oxanilamide, obtained by heating aniline oxalate, and regarded as a double anilide of oxalic acid; — called also diphenyl oxamide.

Oxbane
(Ox"bane`) n. (Bot.) A poisonous bulbous plant (Buphane toxicaria) of the Cape of Good Hope.

Oxbird
(Ox"bird`) n. (Zoöl.) (a) The dunlin. (b) The sanderling. (c) An African weaver bird

Oxbiter
(Ox"bit`er) n. (Zoöl.) The cow blackbird. [Local, U. S.]

Oxbow
(Ox"bow`) n. 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.

Oxeye
(Ox"eye`) n. [Ox + eye.]

1. (Bot.) (a) The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy. (b) The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis). (c) A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) and the blue titmouse [Prov. Eng.] (b) The dunlin. (c) A fish; the bogue, or box.

Creeping oxeye (Bot.) a West Indian composite plant — Seaside oxeye (Bot.), a West Indian composite shrub

Oxeyed
(Ox"*eyed`) a. Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox. Burton.

Oxfly
(Ox"fly`) n. (Zoöl.) The gadfly of cattle.

Oxford
(Ox"ford) a. 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, laced on the instep, and usually covering the foot nearly to the ankle.

Oxgang
(Ox"gang`) n. [Ox + gang, n., 1.] (O. Eng. Law) See Bovate.

Oxgoad
(Ox"goad`) n. A goad for driving oxen.