Definition of sheep

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Sheep (n. sing. & pl.) A weak, bashful, silly fellow..

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Sheepish :: Sheepish (a.) Of or pertaining to sheep.
Sheepy :: Sheepy (a.) Resembling sheep; sheepish.
Crimpy :: Crimpy (a.) Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep..
Thwarter :: Thwarter (n.) A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions..
Tallow :: Tallow (n.) The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds..
Mortling :: Mortling (n.) An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling..
Earmark :: Earmark (v. t.) To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear..
Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc..
Woolgrower :: Woolgrower (n.) One who raises sheep for the production of wool.
Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.
Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) Act of shearing sheep.
Jemmy :: Jemmy (n.) A baked sheep's head.
Chamois :: Chamois (n.) A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy..
Roan :: Roan (n.) A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco..
Botfly :: Botfly (n.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and anot
Baa :: Baa (n.) The cry or bleating of a sheep; a bleat.
Sheepmaster :: Sheepmaster (n.) A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep..
Run :: Run (n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run..
Blast :: Blast (n.) A flatulent disease of sheep.
Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
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