Owosso
a city in Shiawassee co., Mich.; on the Shiawasse river, and on the Michigan Central, the Grand Trunk, and the Ann Arbor railroads; 38 miles S. W. of Saginaw. It contains libraries, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, several banks, and a number of da daily and weekly newspapers. It has manufactories of door and window screens, hickory handles, caskets, furniture and dining-room tables, rugs, newspapers and books. Pop. (1910) 9,639; (1920) 12,575.
OX, the castrated male of Bos taurus when arrived at maturity; also the popular name for the genus Bos. It has been known from remote antiquity, and in the East possessed, and in India still possesses, sacred character. They a have been broadly divided into two groups the humped, with B. Indicus, and the straight-backed, with B. taurus as a type. The domestic oxen consist of a number of different breeds.