owse
noun
ox.
owsen
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pluralof owse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I had sax owsen in a pleugh, They drew a’ weel eneugh, I sell’d them a’ just ane by ane; Gude ale keeps my heart aboon.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
An' the moments scour'd by, like birds through the sky, When tentin' the owsen wi' thee, Jean Linn, When tentin' the owsen wi' thee.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
‘We lie not here for owsen, dear father, Nor yet lie here for kye; But it’s for a little o’ dear-bought love Sae sair bound as we lye.’
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
Sheep will die in cots, mither, And owsen die in byre;50 And what's this warld's wealth to me, An I get na my heart's desire?
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
I. When o’er the hill the eastern star Tells bughtin-time is near, my jo; And owsen frae the furrow’d field Return sae dowf and weary, O!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
