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Oxes vs Opes - What's the difference?

oxes | opes |

As a noun oxes

is (nonstandard).

As a verb opes is

(ope).

oxes

English

Noun

(head)
  • (nonstandard)
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    opes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ope)

    • Anagrams

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    ope

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
  • *:Arriving there, as did by chaunce befall, / He found the gate wyde ope […].
  • * 1819 , (John Keats), Otho the Great , Act V, Scene V, verses 191-192:
    • We are all weary — faint — set ope the doors —
    I will to bed! — To-morrow —
  • * Herbert
    • On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope .

    Verb

    (op)
  • (archaic) To open.
  • * 1611 , William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, scene II :
    • The hour's now come, the very minute bids thee ope thine ear; obey and be attentive.

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