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Definition of Ox-eyed
1. Adjective. Having large round eyes like those of an ox. "Ox-eyed Juno"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ox-eyed
Literary usage of Ox-eyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Prose Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth (1876)
"ox-eyed Daisy. ' Hope smiled when your nativity was cast. ... which was richly
decorated with that large bright flower, the ox-eyed daisy. ..."
2. The Cruiser: A Quarterly Magazine of Cruising Tales and Adventures (1907)
"Oh, May looked up and she saw her fate In the ox-eyed man passing by the gate.
... Heigh-ho for the ox-eyed man. Oh, May in the parlor a-sitting on his knee ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1921)
"So spake she, and the father of gods and men smiled, and answering her he spake
winged' words : " If thou, of a truth, O ox-eyed lady Hera, ..."
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