oxen

n : domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or

age: "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come

home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team

of oxen" [syn: {cattle}, {cows}, {kine}, {Bos taurus}]

boxen

/bok'sn/ (By analogy with {VAXen}) A fanciful plural of {box}

often encountered in the phrase "Unix boxen", used to describe

commodity {Unix} hardware. The connotation is that any two

Unix boxen are interchangeable.

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-11-29)