[ad. MHG. ûr-ochse (G. urochs UROCHS, auerochs AUROCHS), or f. URE sb.3 + OX.] = URUS.

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  1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 722. Their large bodies and manes … it is not unfit to attribute … also to the Vre-Oxe. Ibid., 723. In Malonia neer Lituania … those Vre-oxen are kept as it were in parkes and chases.

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1611.  Cotgr., Ure, the huge-bodied, bulch-backed, short-horned, and red-eyed wild Oxe, called the Vre-oxe.

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1661.  Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 23. Bull, Taurus.… Hereto may be referred the Bison; and Vre-oxe.

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  1887.  trans. Hahn’s Wand. Plants & Anim., 495. The ure-ox and wisent of the German forests.

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1888.  E. Gerard, Land beyond Forest: Transylvania, II. 11. Whoever … let himself be lured into quaffing mead from her ure-ox drinking horn, was doomed.

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