OxXS 
' 21. A Benediétine cell at Milton to the monaftery of Ab- 
ington. 
22. Auftin priory at Norton, built by William Fitz- 
Alan the fecond, tem 
23. A houfe for knights templars at Saundford, founded 
about ter p. Ste 
24. A Ben edictine nunnery at Stodley, — and endowed 
ok Bernard i Walerico, in the reign of Henry IT. 
Ciftercian abbey at Thame. This ee was ori- 
Sicily founded at Otteley, in the parifh of Oddington, by fir 
obert ait, but was ortty after remove ithe 
Alexander, bifhop of Lincoln, gave the ground on which 
a bagel was built, A. D. 1137. 
. An hofpital alfo in this town, founded by Richard 
6s either i in the reign of Henry VI., or of king 
Edward IV 
27. A houfe of Trinitarian a at Thusfield, or Thuf- 
field, founded before 33 Edw. 
n hofpital of St. Mery i in n Wooditoc 
2g. A priory of Auftin canons at Uroxton, founded in the 
beginning of the reign,of king Henry III. by Michel Belet. 
Granted to fir Thomas Pope Camden’s Britannia, by 
fo 
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ugh, 3 vols. folio. Beauties of England and Wales, 
vol. ix. b rewer. Natural Hiftory of Oxfordthire, 
ford, edit. 16 r’s 
a View of the A griculeore 
of Oxfordfhire, by Arthur Young, fecretary to the Boa 
of aes 8vo. London, 1809 
OXGANG, or OxeaTE of a 1s raenete taken, 
in our old law-books, for fifteen acres ; as much land 
as it is {uppofed one ox can plough in 
‘s Bovata terre, 9. d, quantum fuffice adi iter vel aétum 
unius bovis.’ 
In Lincolnfhire they ftill corruptly call it o/fin of land. 
This term is ufed in Scotland for a portion of arable land, 
ie thirteen acres. 
ANGER, in Geography, a {mall ifland on the E. 
yrs of the gulf of Bothnia. N. lat. 63°19’. E. long. 
1° 58! 
”‘OX-HARROW, in Agriculture, a term applied to a 
very large we of harrow, called in fome countries a drag. 
XIANA, in Ancient Geogra hy, a town of Afia, in 
Sogdiana, near the Oxus ; which fee. 
O of Sogdiana, called by Pliny o 
me of the river of whi re is the fource. 
» between the 
; They Savas sich 
the Deciales, for attacking the towns of Nice and Antibes. 
Steph. Byz. affigns to = a town called  Oxibium.” 
Strabo mentions a port named * Oxibus” as belonging to 
them, fuppofed to be = fame with the maritime town called 
y Polybius « 
OXNA, in ener a a {mall ifland on the E. coaft of 
Shetland. N.lat.60- 8/. W. long. 1° 52/. 
XNAY, a river-ifland of England, in the county of 
Kent, formed by the divided ftreams of the Rether, about 
feven miles long, and three broad, containing three parifhes, 
and giving name to a hundred. 
OX SHOE fe MaAcHINE, in Agri culture, a aes 
bufi- 
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from making any trials by cafing them for fhoeing. The 
late lord Nuzent ufed many at Gosfield, in Effex, and from’ 
his machine for this purpofe, he took the idea of his prefent 
- as fein the head apparatus, and added the hinder ftrap. 
e top- aad of the fliding-plank, to fink down 
aA ‘confine the 
b, are eee a ftraps of leather, faftened by links 
of iron, to prevent the ox from lying down on his belly, 
which they are apt to do; andthe hinder ftrap is to prevent 
is drawing back to the injury of his head and nec 
¢, ¢, are two ftumps, ftrongly fixed in the ground, to tie 
the fore-legs to. 
d d, is an iron that lets up and down, as — the 
roller to _— the hinder legs are tied for fhoe 
e, &, é, are holes (with others eoretonduig ore feen in 
the plate) ee the roller to be fhifted according to the length 
of the ox. 
It is fuggefted that the whole is fo fimple, that it is pre- 
umed any country carpenter may = anes to build it with- 
out any difficulty, from infpecting th 
nd it is well remarked that the feces of oxen is generally 
fo ill o rane a fhoes are perpetually coming off, which is 
gre je and expen And he has never had a 
blackfmith tne “did it well, fo. that upon land not flinty or 
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Oxen. 
OXUCIA, in Natural Hiftory, the name of a genus of 
foffils of the clafs of the felenite, but of the columnar, 
not the rhomboidal kind 
The word is derived fon the Greek ofv-, foarp, and xtwy, a 
column 3 and expreffes a body of a columnar form, and 
out or fharp at the ends. 
The felenite of this genus confift of fix equal planes, 
having their top or bottom no broader or more depreffed 
than the others; and in this differing from the i/chnambluces, 
r fla eal columnar felenitz, as they do from the /ambluces, 
or cryftalliform, but broken ended ones, by having their ends 
naturally tapering off toa point 
e bodies of this genus, like thofe of the other genera 
of oe. columnar felenite, are liable to a longitudinal crack 
in their middle ; and this fometimes includes a little clay, in 
the form of an ear of grafs. 
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